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Contemporary philosophy, from Kant through Bergson and Husserl to Heidegger, has assumed that time must be conceived as a fundamental determination of the subject: Time is not first in things but arises from actions, attitudes, or comportments through which a subject temporalizes mtime, expecting or remembering, anticipating the future or making a decision.
Event and Time traces the genesis of this thesis through detailed, rigorous analyses of the philosophy of time in Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine, ultimately showing that, in the development of metaphysics, the understanding of the temporal phenomenon as an inner-temporal phenomenon has made possible time's subjectivization.
The book goes on to argue that time is in fact not thinkable according to metaphysical subjectivity. Instead, the guiding thread for the analysis of time must shift to the eventual hermeneutics of the human being, first developed in Event and World, and now deepened and completed in Event and Time. Romano's diptych makes a compelling, rigorous, and original philosophical contribution to the thinking of the event
Synopsis
Contemporary philosophy, from Kant through Bergson and Husserl to Heidegger, has assumed that time must be conceived as a fundamental determination of the subject: Time is not first in things but arises from actions, attitudes, or comportments through which a subject temporalizes mtime, expecting or remembering, anticipating the future or making a decision.
Event and Time traces the genesis of this thesis through detailed, rigorous analyses of the philosophy of time in Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine, ultimately showing that, in the development of metaphysics, the understanding of the temporal phenomenon as an inner-temporal phenomenon has made possible time's subjectivization.
The book goes on to argue that time is in fact not thinkable according to metaphysical subjectivity. Instead, the guiding thread for the analysis of time must shift to the eventual hermeneutics of the human being, first developed in Event and World, and now deepened and completed in Event and Time. Romano's diptych makes a compelling, rigorous, and original philosophical contribution to the thinking of the event
About the Author
Claude Romano is Associate Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
Stephen E. Lewis is Associate Professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second French Edition
Translator's Note
Introduction
Part I: The Metaphysics of Time
1. The Traditional Determinations of Time and Their Structural Dependence with Respect to the Phenomenon of Inner-Temporality
a. Inner-temporality, as the phenomenological character of what is "in" time
b. The phenomenal features of time considered within the horizon of inner-temporality
2. The Paradoxes of the Parmenides
3. Time and Inner-Temporality in Aristotle's Physics, IV
4. Augustine and the Subjectivization of Time
Part II: Time
5. The Stakes for a Phenomenology of Time and Its Differentiation from the Metaphysics of Time
A. THE GUIDING THREAD OF THE SUBJECT
6. The Aporiae of the Constitution of Time
7. The Ambivalence of Temporality in Zein und Zeit
B. THE OTHER GUIDING THREAD: TIME AND CHANGE
8. The Phenomenological Amplitude of the Concept of Change
9. The Inner-Temporality of Facts: First Approach to the Temporal Phenomenon
a. Time as order and as succession
b. Order without succession: physical objectivism
c. Succession without (or before) order: phenomenological idealism
10. The Event as Guiding Thread
a. Static analysis: the triple phenomenological determination of the event
b. Dynamic analysis: the event as bursting-forth-in-suspension, and its temporalization / taking time
c. The dimensionals of time: the instant, the always-already, the future
11. The Event as Temporalization of Time
Part III: Temporality
12. From Time to Temporality
a. Advenant, event, ex-per-ience
b. Temporality and its three vistas
13. The Having-Taken-Place and Memory
a. Memory and remembrance
b. The evential conditions of memory: the difference between the having-taken-place and the past
14. The Future and Availability
a. Expectation and surprise
b. Availability as original ex-per-ience of the future
15. The Present and Transformation
16. The Temporal Meaning of Selfhood
17. The Mobility of the Adventure and Freedom
18. The Antithetic Phenomenon of Selfhood and Its Temporal Meaning. An Example: Traumatism
19. Recapitulation: The Articulation of Time and of Temporality
20. The Finitude of Temporality
a. The immemorial pre-time of birth
b. The unavailable after-time of death
c. The adventure's finitude, and the excentricity of its meaning
21. The Unity of My Histories
a. The multiplicity of histories
b. The unity of my history
c. The problem of the world
Notes
Index