Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Exile as Postexistential Condition
Times of Excess, Times of Exile
Exile and the Afterness of Existence
The Exile of Memory
2. The Ecstasy of Time (In Conversation with Heidegger)
The Ecstasy of Time in Being and Time
The Ecstasy of Overcoming after Being and Time
From a Thought of the Ecstasy of Being to a Listening to the Whiling of Being
3. Time Absent/Time Present (In Discussion with Blanchot)
The Flight of Philosophy into Literature
The Literature of the Step [Not] Beyond
Neither Absence nor Presence-or the Neutral Time of the Between
4. Time Being (Reading Gerundive Time with Clarice Lispector)
Reading Time and the Time of Reading
The Risk of Writing in Gerundive Time
It Is-Being: Or the Neuter Crafting of Life
5. Without Conclusion: A Home in Gerundive
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University in Sweden. She is the author, editor, and coeditor of many books, including (with Tora Lane) Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and Lost Grounds of Modernity.