The Ethics of Time A Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of Change [Paperback]

The Ethics of Timeutilizes the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics to explore this under-charted field of philosophical inquiry. Its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenomenologically, as it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical texts as Augustine'sConfessionsand Sophocles'sOedipus Rex, among others.

The Ethics of Timetakes seriously phenomenology's claim of a consciousness both constituting time and being constituted by time. This claim has some important implications for the ethical self or, rather, for the ways in which such a self informed by time, might come to understand anew the problems of imperfection and ethical goodness. Even though a strictly philosophical endeavour, this book engages knowledgeably and deftly with subjects across literature, theology and the arts and will be of interest to scholars throughout these disciplines.

Through an erudite and wide knowledge of the philosophical and theological traditions and also through his insights, displayed throughout this book, into drama, music and film, Manoussakis has shown how time and ethics can inform the understanding of each other. This is a profound and challenging book in which the temporal constitution of the ethical is shown to be the ethical nature of time. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This is an engaging, erudite, and frequently beautifully written book by an increasingly formidable voice in the contemporary continental philosophy of religion & This is a book that deserves to be widely read by anyone working in and around the traditions and themes this book considers & Manoussakis continues to ascend to the ranks of the very best scholars working in the contemporary continental philosophy of religion. Reading Religion

There is an active wit in the book that is sharp and playful. Phenomenological Reviews

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