Phenomenology of the Event
Françoise Dastur, Robert Vallier
Questions of Phenomenology June 1, 2017 DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823233731.003.0010 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Key points | Argues that phenomenology, as developed by Husserl and Heidegger, is the philosophy capable of accounting for time's passage and the event's structural "eventuality," since both thinkers treat philosophy's object as phenomenality itself rather than a hidden "being-in-itself." The event is characterized as the unexpected that "befalls" us by surprise, an accident in the proper sense. |
Abstract
This chapter examines the philosophical reflections of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger regarding the phenomenology of the event. It proposes a kind of philosophy that should be able to take account of the very passage of time and its eventality, or structural “eventuality,” and shows that this “true” philosophy is phenomenology. What unites Husserl and Heidegger is the idea that philosophy's object is only phenomenality itself and not some distant “beyond” of a “being-in-itself” hidden and separated from us. The chapter describes an event as the unexpected, which comes-on and happens by surprise, “befalls” us— thus as an accident in the proper sense. The event is thus always a sur-prise, something that suddenly and unexpectedly takes hold of us, and in accordance with the excess of a yet-to-come that will come to us despite any expectation, tension, or intention.
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