Abstract

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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