<P>This is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work of Jacques Derrida and shows&nbsp;how temporality is one of the hallmarks of his thought. Drawing on a wide array of Derrida's texts, Joanna Hodge:</P> <UL> <LI>compares and contrasts&nbsp;Derrida's arguments concerning&nbsp;time with those Kant, Husserl, Augustine, Heidegger, Levinas, Freud, and Blanchot</LI> <LI>argues that Derrida's radical understanding of time as non-linear or irregular is essential to his aim of blurring the distinction between&nbsp;past and present, biography and literature, philosophical and religious meditation, and the nature of the self</LI> <LI>explores the themes of death, touch and transcendence&nbsp;to argue that if considered under the theme of temporality there is&nbsp;more&nbsp;continuity to Derrida's thought than previously considered.</LI></UL>