A Hermeneutic Phenomenology: The Death of the Other Understood as Event
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v0i0.53304Keywords:
Death, Mourning, the Other, Event, Phenomenology, DerridaAbstract
This is a phenomenological description of what is happening when we experience the death of an other that interprets surviving or living on after such death by employing the term event. This term of art from phenomenology and hermeneutics is used to describe a disruptive and transformative experience of singularity. I maintain that the death of the other is an experience of an event because such death is unpredictable or without a horizon of expectation, excessive or without any principle of sufficient reason, and transformative or a death of the world itself.
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Derrida, J. (1993). Aporias (T. Dutoit, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Derrida, J. (1994). Specters of Marx. (P. Kamuf, Trans.). New York, NY: Routledge.
Derrida, J. (2001). Une certaine possibilité impossible de dire l’événement. In G. Soussana, A. Nouss, & J. Derrida (Eds.), Dire l’événement, est-ce possible? Seminaire de Montréal, pour Jacques Derrida (pp. 79-112).
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Derrida, J. (2005b). Sovereignties in question: The poetics of Paul Celan (T. Dutoit & O. Pasanen, Eds.). New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
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Dickinson, E. (2013). Death sets a thing significant. In R. Kick (Ed.), Death poems (pp. 93). San Francisco, CA: Disinformation Books.
Gschwandtner, C. (2014). Degrees of givenness: On saturation in Jean-Luc Marion. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Jones, T. (2014). Traumatized subjects: Continental philosophy of religion and the ethics of alterity. The Journal of Religion, 94(2), 143-160. doi: 10.1086/674952
Kelly, J. C. (Writer), & Hoar, P. (Director). (2015). Penny and dime (Television series episode). In K. Johnston (Producer), Daredevil. New York, NY: Marvel Television.
Levinas, E. (1989). Ethics as first philosophy. In S. Hand (Ed.), The Levinas reader (pp. 75-87). Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.
Levinas, E. (2000). God, death, and time (B. Bergo, Trans,). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Marion, J.L. (1991). God without being: Hors-text. (T. A. Carlson, Trans.). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Marion, J.L. (2002a). Being given: Toward a phenomenology of givennes. (J. L. Kosky, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Marion, J.L. (2002b). In excess: Studies of saturated phenomena (R. Horner & V. Berraud, Trans.). New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
McDermott, L., & McDermott, D. (2011). Learning to Dane in the rain: A true story about life beyond death. Bloomington, IN: Balboa Press.
Nancy, J.L. (2000). Being singular plural (R. D. Richardson & A. E. O’Byrne, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford.
Ovid & Martin, C. (2004). Metamorphoses (D. Raeburn, Trans.). New York, NY: Penguin.
Polt, R. (2014). Traumatic ontology. In M. Marder & S. Zabala (Eds.), Being shaken ontology and the event (pp. 19-40). New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.
Shakespeare, W., & Hubler, E. (1987). The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. New York, N.Y: Penguin.
Schmidt, D. (2011). Of birth, death, and unfinished conversations. In A. Wiercinski (Ed.), Gadamer’s hermeneutics and the art of conversation (pp. 107-114). Piscataway, NJ: Transaction.
Thompson, J.N. (2015). To live and die well. Fuller Magazine, 2, 23-25. Retrieved from http://joynetanyathompson.com/2015/03/23/to-live-and-die-well-fuller-magazine/
van der Heiden, G. J. (2014). Ontology after ontotheology: Plurality, event, and contingency in contemporary philosophy. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.
Voltaire (1950). Candide, or, optimism (J. Butt, Trans.). New York, NY: Penguin Classics.
Zabala, S., & Marder, M. (2014). Introduction: The first jolts. In M. Marder & S. Zabala (Eds.), Being shaken: Ontology and the event (pp. 1-10). New York, NY: Palgrave.
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