Not in Time (Book Review‪)‬

Time Passing: Modernity and Nostalgia, by Sylvaine Agacinski; translated by Jody Gladding, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 212 pp. ACCORDING TO T.S. ELIOT, "To apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time is an occupation for the saint." What occupation, then, is a philosopher pursuing when she begins her reasoning by denying that time ever does intersect with the timeless, by indeed denying the reality of anything timeless with which time ever could intersect? That is the puzzle that presents itself to the reader in Time Passing: Modernity and Nostalgia, a remarkably candid and provocative assessment of "modern thinking about time and its genesis."