There Is: The Event and the Finitude of Appearing

by Claude Romano, Michael B. Smith (Translator)

Overview

"A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an 'evential hermeneutics' that takes as its starting point the life-changing events that upend our world. He studies the structure of these events in terms of the genuine change and novelty that they open up, distinguishing them from mere occurrences, which can be explained as a subject realizing pre-existing possibilities. Because such events introduce radically new possibilities by transforming me and my world, Romano argues that they must be understood as establishing a world rather than as happening in the world."—Shane Mackinlay, Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823267149
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2015
Series:	Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Claude Romano is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne. Two of his books have previously appeared in English: Event and World and Event and Time (both Fordham).

Michael B. Smith is Professor Emeritus of French and Philosophy at Berry College and the translator of many works, including, with Bettina Bergo, Judeities: Questions for Jacques Derrida (Fordham).

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I: EV ENT AND METAPHYSICS
1. Some Sources and Prolongations of "Evential Hermeneutics"
2. Possibility and Event
3. Bergson as Metaphysician and Critic of Metaphysics

PART I I: BEYOND SUBJECT AND OBJECT?
4. Sartrean Freedom, or Adam's Dream
5. The Mirror of Narcissus: On the Phenomenology of the Flesh
6. The Ecological Phenomenology of J. J. Gibson

PART I I I: THE NOTHING AND THE "THERE IS"
7. Is a Phenomenology of Nothingness Possible?
The Carnap-Heidegger Controversy
8. "Between Emptiness and the Pure Event": Phenomenology

Notes

Editorial Reviews

…a philosophical project that attempts to face the fundamental challenges that need to be addressed by contemporary phenomenology, and which builds an original and extremely stimulating pathway in order to redefine the stakes and outcomes of the phenomenological heritage.

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an 'evential hermeneutics' that takes as its starting point the life-changing events that upend our world. He studies the structure of these events in terms of the genuine change and novelty that they open up, distinguishing them from mere occurrences, which can be explained as a subject realizing pre-existing possibilities. Because such events introduce radically new possibilities by transforming me and my world, Romano argues that they must be understood as establishing a world rather than as happening in the world."—Shane Mackinlay, Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne

"...a philosophical project that attempts to face the fundamental challenges that need to be addressed by contemporary phenomenology, and which builds an original and extremely stimulating pathway in order to redefine the stakes and outcomes of the phenomenological heritage."-Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

From the Publisher

A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an ‘evential hermeneutics’ that takes as its starting point the life-changing events that upend our world. He studies the structure of these events in terms of the genuine change and novelty that they open up, distinguishing them from mere occurrences, which can be explained as a subject realizing pre-existing possibilities. Because such events introduce radically new possibilities by transforming me and my world, Romano argues that they must be understood as establishing a world rather than as happening in the world.

Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne - Shane Mackinlay