Event and world

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The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. This title seeks to change that, to describe what sort of phenomenon an event is and to establish how it can be grasped via a phenomenology.

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Full title :Event and world / Claude Romano ; translated by Shane Mackinlay.

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Publication Date:2009.

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Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

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Description:1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages)

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oclc:on1048358359
LC Classification:B2433.R663
Dewey Decimal:142/.7

Events before anything -- The metaontological status of events in stoicism -- Events from the perspective of Heideggerian "ontology" -- Events as innerworldly facts -- Innerworldly facts and events in the evential sense -- The phenomenological problem of the "world": fact, context, and interpretation -- Causality and origin -- The impossibility of dating events, and their "unexperienceable" character -- The task of an eventual hermeneutics: elucidating the meaning of the human adventure using events as the guiding thread; the advenant and his eventials; temporality -- Evential hermeneutics and its delimitation from psychology or anthropology -- Understanding as evential -- The evential concept of world: event as "phenomenological transition" -- The evential meaning of birth -- Eventuality -- Selfhood and responsibility -- Despair and terror -- Selfhood and otherness: the phenomena of bereavement and encounter -- The advenant and the subject -- Experience as undergoing what cannot be experienced -- Understanding and experience -- Experience as a fundamental characteristic of humanity, and the question of transcendental empiricism -- Experience and speech -- Experience at the limits…