Abstract
This paper attempts two things. First a consideration of the question 'what is time?' through a deconstructive reading of Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) and Time and Being (1961). The privileging of Heidegger on this question reflects Derrida's consideration of the Heideggerian meditation as uncircumventable and the only 'thought excess of metaphysics as such' (OG, p.62). Secondly, therefore, the 'relation' of Heidegger and Derrida is to be examined, guided by Rodolphe Gasche's recent discussion of this issue.1 If Heidegger's thought remains bound by a certain phenomenology then one should attempt to trace the manner in which, through Derrida, something^ completely other than any phenomenon imposes its necessity. Rather than assuming Derrida's break with 'presence' as an act of faith, therefore, this essay is deliberately s/ow motion, fol lowing the insistence of this something other as it disrupts received metaphysical accounts of t ime.
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