The Engagement Of Lived-Immediacy A Phenomenological Uncovering Of The Field Of Human Freedom
James Alan Tuedio
Auslegung a Journal of Philosophy February 1, 1979 DOI: 10.17161/ajp.1808.8935 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that engagements in "lived-immediacy" are timeless moments that endure, lacking conceptual dimensionality and suspending the participant beyond the limits of personality, so that there is neither time nor an ego. Contends that until phenomenology established itself as a style of thinking for describing human experiencing, experiences of this kind were presumed to constitute true immediacy. |
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Tuedio "Hearts remote yet not asunder Distance and no space was seen So between them love did shine Either was the other's mine." -GoetheThe engagement in lived-immediacy is a "timeless" moment that endures.Lacking all conceptual dimensionality, this experience not only "envelops" the participant, but also leaves him thoroughly suspended beyond the limitations of personality.In short, there is neither time nor an ego.Perhaps you are on a train that is slowly pulling out of the station.You see a face that reaches out, and suddenly you are experiencing the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time.*Thomas Wolfe continues his description of the experiencing of an engagement in lived-immediacy by reflecting back upon that one moment of timeless suspension when the land did not move, the train did not move, the slattern in the doorway did not move, he did not move.It was as if God had lifted his baton sharply above the endless orchestration of the seas, and the eternal movement had stopped, suspended in the timeless architecture of the absolute.Until Phenomenology established itself as a style of thinking for approaching the description of human experiencing, it was presumed, for the most part, that experiences of this kind constituted true immediacy.Emerson, writing in the essay "On Nature," remarks that his engagements in lived-immediacy leave him thoroughly surpassed: