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THE PREFACE TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE NINTH PARAGRAPH OF CLAUDE ROMANO’S BOOK EVENT AND WORLD: “THE TASK OF EVENTUAL HERMENEUTICS: ELUCIDATING THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN ADVENTURE THROUGH THE GUIDING THREAD OF EVENTS. THE ADVENANT AND HIS EVENTUALITIES. TEMPORALITY”

Abstract
This publication is a translation of the ninth paragraph of French philosopher Claude Romano’s book “Event and World” which provides an outline of event hermeneutics. In general, event hermeneutics is a phenomenological analysis of human existence in the light of events. In this case an event is understood not as a state or property of a subject but as something that completely captivates a human being. An event has no cause in the past; it comes from an unpresentable future, but at the same time an event cannot become the “present”. Therefore, a person's relationship to an event is characterised by an irremediable retardation. An event is recognised by a human when it has already happened. Since the origin of the event is rooting in an unpresentable future it is impossible to date it in historical time. The temporal structure of the event is diachrony, in contrast to synchrony in which world events are arranged around the axis of the ‘present.’ The event takes place in a diachronic interval between an unpresentable future that will never become the present and an unpresentable past that never was the present since it is a neutral experience of our arrival in the world.

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

References

• Romano, C. (1998). L’événement et le monde. Paris, PUF.
• Mamardashvili, M. (1996). The Arrow of Cognition. Moscow: Fond Meraba Mamardashvili Publ. (In Russian)