The Time of Images and Images of Time: Lévinas and Sartre

Poincaré, Sartre, Continuity and Temporality

“…Thus, the present of temporal life always has for Sartre the sense of a release and an emancipation from the past and the present, since its incessant self-transcendence precludes that it would ever coincide with its presence to the world, and thus be its own present. 13 Poincaré shows how it is possible for the present to provide an emancipation from the past. If a given time B is indistinguishable from a preceding time A and a subsequent time C, then B is not a discontinuity separated from all other events.…”