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Event and World
Claude Romano
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Description for Event and World
Paperback. 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. This title seeks to change that, to describe what sort of phenomenon an event is and to establish how it can be grasped via a phenomenology. Translator(s): MacKinlay, Shane. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823229710
SKU
V9780823229710
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About Claude Romano
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). SHANE MACKINLAY is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Catholic Theological College (Melbourne College of Divinity).
Reviews for Event and World
In this first volume of his ground-breaking phenomenology of the event, Claude Romano re-describes the human being as the being that is capable of events. The result is something new and provocative: an evential hermeneutics. All philosophers and theologians have things to learn from this study.
-Kevin Hart
The University of Virginia
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-Kevin Hart
The University of Virginia
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