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Book SynopsisThe book critically analyzes the subjectivization of time in traditional metaphysics (Plato, Aristotle, Augustine), as well as more recent thought (Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger), and argues that, instead, the guiding thread for the analysis of time ought to be the evential hermeneutics of the human being, developed first in Event and World and deepened and completed here.
Trade Review"This second volume of Claude Romano's major work on the nature of the event is a triumph of philosophical construction and analysis. Here we find a fascinating elaboration of 'l'advenant', a pre-subjective mode of selfhood, interlaced with rich discussions of the differences between the metaphysics and phenomenology of time. Of particular importance is Romano's investigation into the phenomenon of birth. Crystalline in its structure, and rich with possibilities for aiding studies in life writing and narrative, as well as for thinking about responsibility and witness, Event and Time is itself an event of the first order." -- -Kevin Hart The University of Virginia
Table of ContentsPreface 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
