Event and Time (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) - Hardcover

Romano, Claude

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823255336 ISBN 13: 9780823255337

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2013

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.

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About the Authors

Claude Romano is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. Two of his books have previously appeared in English, Event and World and Event and Time (both Fordham).

Stephen E. Lewis is Associate Professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823255336
• ISBN 13: 9780823255337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296