Preface.- Introduction: New Beginnings.- Part I: Phenomenology and the Problem of Time.- 1. Time, Intentionality, and Immanence in Modern Subject Idealism.- 2. The Imperfection of Immanence in Husserl’s Phenomenology.- 3. The Living-Present: Absolute time-consciousness and Genuine Phenomenological Immanence.- Part II: The Problem of Time and Phenomenology. -  4. Transcendence: Heidegger and The Turn, the open, ‘The finitude of being … first spoken of in the book on Kant’.- 5. The Truly Transcendental: Merleau-Ponty,un Écart, ‘The Acceptance of the Truth of the Transcendental Analysis'.- Conclusion: The Ultratranscendental: Derrida and Phenomenology ‘Tormented, if not contested, from within’.

This book explores the problem of time and immanence for phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida. It provides an in-depth analysis of phenomenology’s central notions of intentionality, immanence, and temporality, suggesting a new perspective on themes central to phenomenology and its development as a movement.  The author raises for debate the question of where phenomenology begins and ends. Detailed readings of immanence in light of the more familiar problems of time-consciousness and temporality provide the framework for evaluating both Husserl's efforts to break free of modern philosophy's notions of immanence, and the influence Hiedegger's criticism of Husserl exercised over Merleau-Ponty's and Derrida's alternatives to Husserl's phenomenology.

“I have personally been waiting for this book for some time, and it has been worth the wait. Written with lucidity on arguably the most difficult and central of phenomenological problems – time – Kelly’s book is a tour de force, shedding new light on all of the thinkers it engages with.” (Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean, Deakin University, Australia)

"I have personally been waiting for this book for some time, and it has been worth the wait. Written with lucidity on arguably the most difficult and central of phenomenological problems - time - Kelly's book is a tour de force, shedding new light on all of the thinkers it engages with." (Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean, Deakin University, Australia)

Explores the subtle differences in the notion of intentionality found in Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty Combines insights on philosophers not often discussed together with such a specific focus Presents the phenomenological revisions to Husserl’s theory of self-awareness as a mode of immanence