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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

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 phenomenology. He seeks, above all, to understand a human being as one to whom events can occur, who is able to face them and to appropriate them through experience. '�Evential hermeneutics'� is the name he gives this approach, which conceives human being as an undergoing of events for which there can be no substitution and as thereby becoming himself.Romano at once forces us to think human existence'�or rather, human adventure'�in the light of events and helps us understand how and why the event has been neglected in the ontological tradition.

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Translator's Note	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction: The Problem	p. 1
Events Before Anything	p. 3
The Metaontological Status of Events in Stoicism	p. 5
Events from the Perspective of Heideggerian "Ontology"	p. 10
Events	p. 23
Events as Innerworldly Facts	p. 23
Innerworldly Facts and Events in the Evential Sense	p. 27
The Phenomenological Problem of the "World": Fact, Context, and Interpretation	p. 32
Causality and Origin	p. 39
The Impossibility of Dating Events, and Their "Unexperienceable" Character	p. 45
The Task of an Evential Hermeneutics: Elucidating the Meaning of the Human Adventure Using Events as the Guiding Thread; The Advenant and His Eventials; Temporality	p. 49
The Advenant	p. 57
Evential Hermeneutics and Its Delimitation from Psychology or Anthropology	p. 57
Understanding as Evential	p. 60
The Evential Concept of World: Event as "Phenomenological Transition"	p. 65
The Evential Meaning of Birth	p. 69
Eventuality	p. 82
Selfhood and Responsibility	p. 91
Despair and Terror	p. 101
Selfhood and Otherness: The Phenomena of Bereavement and Encounter	p. 114
The Advenant and the Subject	p. 129
Experience	p. 143
The Primary Phenomenological Meaning of Experience	p. 143
Experience as Undergoing What Cannot Be Experienced	p. 143
Understanding and Experience	p. 150
Experience as a Fundamental Characteristic of Humanity, and the Question of Transcendental Empiricism	p. 157
Experience and Speech	p. 164
Experience at the Limits: Suffering, Death	p. 173
The Concealing and Downgrading of The Original Meaning of Ex-Per-Ience: Empiricism	p. 189
The Genesis of Empiricism	p. 190
The De-worlding of Events and Information	p. 200
Conclusion: The Task of a Hermeneutic of Temporality	p. 211
Notes	p. 213
Index	p. 235
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Claude Romano is Associate Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Shane Mackinlay lectures in philosophy at the Catholic Theological College in Melbourne, Australia.

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