The genitive ‘of’ thereby indicates a mode of democracy which does only exist as long as it keeps itself open towards its own changeability and eventfulness. Insofar as philosophy shares the temporality of the untimely with the arts, the lecture-performance defines arts-based philosophy––the alliance of art and philosophy, by which philosophy has started to implement artistic practices into philosophy––as a field for the appearance of the untimely.Īs Jacques Derrida has shown in Politics of Friendship, the proposition “Alas! if only you knew how soon, how very soon, things will be – different! –”, characterises precisely the aporetic principle of a democracy of the future, grounded in the temporality of the untimely. Being neither part of the past nor of eternity, the temporality of the untimely calls future events into being. The lecture starts with the claim that philosophical thinking necessarily performs the temporality of the untimely as a mode of being-in-time, which realises a revolt of time against its times in favour of a time to come. The following lecture performance was a part of the research festival Philosophy On Stage#4 at Tanzquartier Wien, where new relations between philosophy and the arts were tested and put into practice. Ricoeur, Aesthetics and Hermeneutics.Untimely thinking, Nietzsche, Derrida, philosophy, artistic research, arts-based philosophy, Philosophy On Stage, Abstract She has published various articles, essays and monographs on F. Founder and Editor in Chief of the international Journal of Philosophy “Logoi.ph” (online, open access, blind peer reviewed journal). In this volume the reader will find different reflections moving from the Nietzschean texts, rethinking the question of the ‘Untimely’ beyond the ‘master’, and exploring wider horizons of research.Īnnalisa Caputo is Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bari (Italy), where she teaches Languages of Philosophy and Teaching Philosophy.

Indeed, there are only a few publications that fully present the issue of ‘Untimely’ on the international scene.

Although this concept has become very popular, it is surprising that it has been neglected by critical studies. After the publication of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations ( Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen), the term ‘Untimely’ was introduced widely in philosophical studies, not merely in Nietzschean contexts.

Nietzsche untimely meditations