David Wood, Chair of Warwick’s philosophy department in the early 90s, is one of the few within academia to have entered, engaged and extended Heidegger without the trappings of Being’s self-revelation; his Thinking after Heidegger is no disappointment. He once wrote (in The Deconstruction of Time, I think?) that philosophers will eventually write about time. When I emabarked on the Ph.D. x-years ago, a core concern was to establish a trinitarian relation between Machiavelli, Nietzsche and Weber. It has since undergone multiple shifts and re-traversals - not so much within the then framework, but the very thought behind it. Since then, it’s the very conceptualisation of time that has exerted a forceful presence. A growing part of the salvation history and typology that Augustine ushered centres around the organisation and meaning of time, its modes and modules. An enlightening read is Gerhard Dohrn-Van Rossum’s History of the hour.
Frank Kermode’s The sense of an ending weaves together parallels between novel structures and historical thinking; it is unsurprisingly lucid and wears its Hegelian colours draped in popular garb.
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