Recovering the Moment. Issue 2 (1st December 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Engel, Kenton
• Is Part Of: Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology. Volume 18:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 109
• Page End: 117
• Publication Date: 2018-12-01
• Subjects: Phenomenology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 142.705
• DOI: 10.1080/20797222.2018.1539297
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2079-7222

Abstract

Abstract: What is a moment? While Heidegger considers the moment (Augenblick) hermeneutically in the first division of Being and Time, he abandons the thoroughly hermeneutic account in an ecstatic analysis of time in the second. In this paper, I explore the moment in the direction of hermeneutic temporality and finite comprehensibility. I begin by describing how Heidegger's ecstatic analysis by its very nature forecloses the possibility of the average, everyday constitution of the moment. I then attempt a broader recovery of hermeneutic temporality, specifically instantiated in Gadamer's temporality of the festival. In so doing, I hope to re-establish the Augenblick as the moment of finite comprehensibility.