"Time and Philosophy fills a great vacuum in the literature on continental philosophy, providing students with an invaluable orientation into this complex tradition. The book - while necessarily implementing a selective criteria - sets forth a nuanced and exhaustive reading of the diversity of the tradition, and suggests the unifying thematic of temporality as the essential concern and horizon of continental philosophy. This book will be useful to continental and analytic philosophers alike." - James Luchte, University of Wales

John McCumber is Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA.

Introduction Part I Germany, 1790-1890 1. The Collapse of Kant 2. Hegel Discovers the Past 3. Marx, Capitalism and the Future 4. Kierkegaard's Dreadful Future 5. Nietzsche and the Boundless Future Part II Germany and America, 1900-68 6. The Return of Traditional Philosophy: Edmund Husserl 7. The Finite Future: Martin Heidegger 8. Activity and Mortality: Hannah Arendt 9. The Twilight of Enlightenment: Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer Part III France since 1945 10. The Future and Freedom: Jean-Paul Sartre 11. The Future and the Disclosure of Being: Simone de Beauvoir 12. The Future as Rupture: Michel Foucault 13. The Future and Hope: Jacques Derrida Epilogue: Agamben, Badiou, Butler, Ranciere and the Crocodile's Final Secret