The Time of Our Lives: A Critical History of Temporality
"Drawing on years of immersion in the major traditions of continental philosophy -- phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory, and genealogy -- David Couzens Hoy has produced a remarkable meditation on the implications of each for the perennially vexed question of temporality. In clear and straightforward prose, he induces the reader to slow down and take the time to ponder the paradoxes of our lives lived in the present, yet haunted by the past and hopeful of the future."--Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley(Martin Jay)"The Time of Our Lives is David Hoy at his best. The book is eclectic yet incisive, ambitious yet well-realized, complex yet readable. Hoy not only offers a compelling defense of genealogy as a mode of critique, his critical history of temporality also beautifully exemplifies the fruitfulness of genealogical critique." --Amy Allen, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Dartmouth College(Amy Allen)"Drawing on years of immersion in the major traditions of continental philosophy—phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory, and genealogy—David Couzens Hoy has produced a remarkable meditation on the implications of each for the perennially vexed question of temporality. In clear and straightforward prose, he induces the reader to slow down and take the time to ponder the paradoxes of our lives lived in the present, yet haunted by the past and hopeful of the future."Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley"The Time of Our Livesis David Hoy at his best. The book is eclectic yet incisive, ambitious yet well realized, complex yet readable. Hoy not only offers a compelling defense of genealogy as a mode of critique, his critical history of temporality also beautifully exemplifies the fruitfulness of genealogical critique."Amy Allen, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women"s and Gender Studies, Dartmouth College