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Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology

On-line version ISSN 1445-7377
Print version ISSN 2079-7222

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ENGEL, Kenton. Recovering the Moment. Indo-Pac. j. phenomenol. (Online) [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.2, pp.1-9. ISSN 1445-7377.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20797222.2018.1539297.

What is a moment? While Heidegger considers the moment (Augenblick) hermeneutically in the first division of Being and Time3he 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 andfinite 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.

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