McDonough, T.D. (2015). The \'General Peculiarity\' of Temporal Particularity

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The 'General Peculiarity' of Temporal Particularity Time, Substance and Things. May 21-22, 2015 Universite Paris VIII St-Denis.

T.D. McDonough Lecturer in English Language University Centre at Blackburn College [email protected] KEYWORDS: TEMPORALITY, LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE, PHENOMENOLOGY, ONTOLOGY, COGNITION, CONSCIOUSNESS. Phenomenological time is, as Husserl asserts, 'a general peculiarity of all experiences'. Any 'talk' about time, as either substance or concept, ought to account for the linguistic parameters and discursive formations that underpin all 'talk'. Whilst the deictic function of language is well documented at the level of metaphor (Lakoff, 1984; Boroditsky, 2011) and syntax (Chomsky, 1995), and at the level of narrative (Ricoeur, 1980; Genette, 1980) and discourse (Foucault, 1969), the reconciliation of the two, I will argue, presents us with a system imbued with a paradoxical complexity which logical/structural semantics fails to hold to account. We are faced with the problem that 'talk' (discourse) is primarily defined by, and therefore construed within, an ontological framework preconditioned by an inherent and paradoxical temporality. Discursive formations operate outside of, whilst also internalising, logical syntactic form. The detemporalised 'structure' of discourse establishes, in its necessary relationship with the causative temporality of syntax, a paradoxical relationship where time is both confirmed and denied, exhibited and deconstructed. I will argue that this relationship emerges from the disjuncture between the finite temporal conditions of the body and the infinite, thereby detemporalised, conditions of consciousness.

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