| Event and World Contributor(s): Romano, Claude (Author), Mackinlay, Shane (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0823229718 ISBN-13: 9780823229710 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction |
| Dewey: 142.7 |
| LCCN: 2008043315 |
| Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. However central they may be to the question of being in Western thought, from Aristotle to Heidegger, events have always been assigned a derivative status, indeterminate, at the margins of philosophy.Claude Romano seeks to change all that, to describe precisely what sort of phenomenon an event is and to establish how it can be grasped via a phenomenology. He seeks, above all, to understand a humanbeing as one to whom events can occur, who is able to face them and to appropriate them through experience. Evential hermeneuticsis the name he gives this approach, which conceives human being as an undergoing of events for which there can be no substitution and as thereby becoming himself.Romano at once forces us to think human existence-or rather, human adventure-in the light of events and helps us understand how and why the event has been neglected in the ontological tradition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Romano, Claude: - 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).Mackinlay, Shane: - SHANE MACKINLAY is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Catholic Theological College (Melbourne College of Divinity). |