Event and time; (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

297 Pages·2013·4.427 MB·English

by  Claude Romano

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PERSPECTIVES IN
CONTINENTAL
PHILOSOPHY
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CLAUDE ROMANO
Event and Time
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TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN LEWIS
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York • 2014
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Event and Time was first published in French under the title L'e venement et le temps by
Presses Universitaires de France, © 1999 Presses Universitaires de France. It was
reissued in 2012 with corrections and a new Preface by the author. The present English
translation is based on the reissue, along with further additions from the author.
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Contents
Preface to the Second French Edition xi
Translator's Note xvii
Introduction 1
PART 1. THE METAPHYSICS OF TIME 9
§1. The Traditional Determinations of Time and Their Structural Dependence
with Respect to the Phenomenon of Inner-Temporality 9 • §2. The Paradoxes
of the Parmenides 18 • §3. Time and Inner-Temporality in Aristotle's
Physics IV 38 • §4. Augustine and the Subjectivization of Time 67
PART 2. TIME 95
§5. The Stakes for a Phenomenology of Time and Its Differentiation
from the Metaphysics of Time 95
A. THE GUIDING THREAD OF THE SUBJECT 98
§6. The Aporiae of the Constitution of Time 98 • §7. The Ambivalence
of Temporality in Sein und Zeit 103
B. THE OTHER GUIDING THREAD: TIME AND CHANGE 109
§8. The Phenomenological Amplitude of the Concept of Change 109 •
§9. The Inner-Temporality of Facts: First Approach to the Temporal
Phenomenon 113 • §10. The Event as Guiding Thread 123 •
§11. The Event as Temporalization of Time 128
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