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CLAUDE ROMANO
EVENT AND WORLD
§ 9. THE TASK OF AN EVENTUAL HERMENEUTICS: ELUCIDATING THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN ADVENTURE THROUGH THE GUIDING THREAD OF EVENTS. THE ADVENANT AND HIS EVENTUALITIES. TEMPORALITY

Abstract
This publication presents a translation of the ninth paragraph of French philosopher Claude Romano’s book “Event and World”. At the heart of Romano’s reflections is the question: what is an event? First of all, an event cannot be placed among the facts of the world and be understood as attributes inherent in these facts. Therefore, an event cannot be fitted into the usual categories of thinking. An event is not any “something” that could be fit into the categories of time and place; it does not belong to the “reality”, but it is not something “possible” either. An event has no cause and therefore does not exist in the past. It happens as a break with the present and therefore cannot be seen in the future which is only a projection of the present. The time of an event is an unpresentable past and an unpresentable future. The structure of this time is diachrony, as opposed to synchrony, in which the facts of the world are given. The key term in Romano’s hermeneutics of the event is the Coming One (advenant) as an indication of a more primordial understanding of human that Heidegger’s Dasein. The Coming One is the event of human’s coming to himself.

Keywords
Coming One, advenant, phenomenology, event, subject, Dasein, eventualities, temporality

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