Singularitäten. Vom zu-reichenden Grund der Zeit. Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Freundschaftd

The power of imagination in ist transcendental sense functions for Kant and Heidegger as a set of rules that opens access to reality. In generating the "pure image" of time, the transcendental power of imagination schematizes an intellectual horizon ("eye") that gives us the opportunity to experience something in time and space (intentionality). After this a priori horizon has been installed as the self (Da-sein) we are living in, we are permanently freed to perceive, store and even reproduce things without perceiving them actually. In this respect, Kant speaks of a "threefold synthesis, that necessarily takes place in every act of knowledge": the synthesis of apprehension in intuition, the synthesis of reproduction in imagination and finally the synthesis of recognition in concept. In this threefold structure the transcendental unity of time begins to drift apart and starts to unfold the three horizons of future, past and presence within itself. The singularity of time now has become the transcendental unity of a threefold structure in which time develops itself as temporality The beginning chapters of the book try to grasp this differnce between the transcendental unity of time and the Threefold structure of temporality. The second part of the book tries to interpret this difference as the rupture of time (ontic-ontological difference). Alluding to Gilles Deleuze work "Difference and Repetition" the author now analyzes the three passive synthesis of time. First the synthesis of the living present, in whitch we register and habilitate our relation to things who are at our disposal. Second the synthesis of the pure past that transcendentally grounds the presence at hand as far as it renders the sub-iectum in relation to which something can be perceived, registered, and imaginatively reproduced. Finally the third synthesis of time, the synthesis of future-a constitutive moment of temporality that permanently catches up with emptiness and thus reinstalls and discloses the unborn virtual lacks within time and space. By virtue of this synthesis the totality of the past is continously reopend and thus allows us to recontextualize it afterwards. It is this third synthesis of time, the synthesis of future that performs the intimate play of the manifold time levels in relation to each other. A game, where the simple circles of time are permanently decentered and thus "loose" their ability to bring beginning and end together into an all too simple whole. The book ends with an analysis of this "royal repetition" (Deleuze), performed in our memory of the future: an eccentric structure of time, responsible for the continuos repotentialisation of the past (Agamben).