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Phenomenology of the Event: Waiting and Surprise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Françoise Dastur
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How, asks Françoise Dastur, can philosophy account for the sudden happening and the factuality of the event? Dastur asks how phenomenology, in particular the work of Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, may be interpreted as offering such an account. She argues that the “paradoxical capacity of expecting surprise is always in question in phenomenology,” and for this reason, she concludes, “We should not oppose phenomenology and the thinking of the event. We should connect them; openness to phenomena must be identified with openness to unpredictability.” The article offers reflections in these terms on a phenomenology of birth.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Contemporary French Women Philosophers , Fall 2000 , pp. 178 - 189
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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