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James Joyce as Philosopher and Theologian of Time
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 34, Number 2, Winter 2011
- pp. 192-195
- 10.2979/jmodelite.34.2.192
- Review
- Additional Information
Ruben Borg's The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida argues that James Joyce's Finnegans Wake must be read as a singular attempt to represent the eccentric structure of post-human temporality. The book relocates the Wake within a long history of philosophies of time as well as recent post-structuralist and information theory. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, Borg shows how Joyce's formal and narratological innovations enabled him to present a structure of time that does not obey the linear, humanistic progression of the bildungsroman but instead manifests mechanical temporal economies of production and waste.