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Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasising ‘the moment’. ‘The moment’ demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetition, rupture and continuity. This collection addresses the key questions posed by ‘the moment’, considering writers such as Nietzsche, Husserl, Benjamin and Badiou, and elucidates the connections between social theory, philosophy, literary theory and history that are opened up by this notion. Acknowledgements Introduction Heidrun Friese 1. Is it Time? Geoffrey Bennington 2..The Aporia of the Instant in Derrida’s Reading of Husserl 3. Existential Moments Peter Poellner 4. Augen-Blicke Heidrun Friese 5. On Alain Badiou Simon Critchley 6. Instants of Diminishing Representation: The Problem of Temporal Modalities Karl Heinz Bohrer 7. Poetry and the Returns of Time: Goethe’s ‘Wachstum’ and ‘Immer and Überall’ Andrew Benjamin 8. ‘NOW’: Walter Benjamin on Historical Time Werner Hamacher Notes on Contributors Index Acknowledgements Introduction Heidrun Friese 1. Is it Time? Geoffrey Bennington 2..The Aporia of the Instant in Derrida’s Reading of Husserl 3. Existential Moments Peter Poellner 4. Augen-Blicke Heidrun Friese 5. On Alain Badiou Simon Critchley 6. Instants of Diminishing Representation: The Problem of Temporal Modalities Karl Heinz Bohrer 7. Poetry and the Returns of Time: Goethe’s ‘Wachstum’ and ‘Immer and Überall’ Andrew Benjamin 8. ‘NOW’: Walter Benjamin on Historical Time Werner Hamacher Notes on Contributors Index