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The Possible Present

by Ugo Perone

  • Paperback
  • 150 pages
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.1 cm

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The Possible Present unfolds from within a freely reinterpreted hermeneutic perspective and provides an original theoretical proposal on the topic of time. In dialogue especially with the philosophies of Husserl and Heidegger, but resorting also to suggestions coming from a theological background (Barth and Bonhoeffer), the work proposes a personal and original theory of time centered on a conception of the present that does not reduce temporality to a succession of mere instants. When one claims that time is ungraspable, one refers neither to the past (which is rather irretrievable) nor to the future (which is rather uncertain) but to the present. The present in which we are is in fact what fades from our hands without break. The present is a decisive threshold for finite existence. It is the threshold where past and future meet and can give birth to a livable horizon of meaning. Dilating the present and giving it a meaningful chance to be is a task for philosophy. It is the attempt of giving time to time and also giving it shape, place, and space. To succeed at this task while rediscovering the sources of a narrative way of thinking that in truth it has never abandoned, philosophy must go back and turn time into the primary object of discourse, like in stories, which are precisely the attempt at disposing the temporal flow of events according to a meaning. Perone argues that in time, however, what passes is not simply decline, but rather something irreducible, an exteriority that must be said.
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  • Author

    Ugo Perone

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    State University of New York Press

  • Published

    February 2012

  • Weight

    227g

  • Page Count

    150

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781438437460

  • ISBN-10

    1438437463

  • Eden Code

    4040720

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