There Is: The Event and the Finitude of Appearing (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

by Claude Romano

Michael B. Smith (Translator)

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“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
  • ISBN10 0823267148
  • ISBN13 9780823267149
  • Publish Date 1 October 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Fordham University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 296
  • Language English