Conferința Claude Romano și hermeneutica evenimențială, David Mândruț

Facultatea de Istorie și Filosofie prin Departamentul de Filosofie și Centrul de Filosofie Aplicată vă invită la conferința intitulată Claude Romano și hermeneutica evenimențială susținută de către David Mândruț (Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Facultatea de Istorie și Filosofie). Evenimentul va avea loc joi, 6 martie 2025, de la ora 18:00 în sala D. D. Roșca, Clădirea Centrală a UBB Cluj-Napoca, str. M. Kogălniceanu nr. 1, etaj 1.

This presentation engages with the thought of Claude Romano, in an attempt to analyze some basic tenets of his evential hermeneutics. First, the advenant’s, i.e. the human being’s relation to events will be studied, in order to prove that a key point in Romano’s original thought consists specifically in rethinking the human’s being sojourn as a sort of being who is able to resist and appropriate events, thus understanding them. Therefore, the original event of birth will be our starting point, followed by some scattered remarks on Romano’s notion of encounter, and arriving finally at his appraisal of Kierkegaard’s notion of despair, which is designated first and foremost, as an impossibility of any possibility. Romano’s first book, Event and World, represents a critical account of Heidegger’s Being and Time, wherein the French phenomenological author seeks to demonstrate the limitations of Heidegger’s thought, in relation to the notion of event. While Heidegger stressed the role played by the anticipatory resolution, as Dasein’s way of becoming authentic and individuated, Romano’s begins his thesis with the analysis of the birth of the advenant, in an original attempt to prove that every understanding is somehow delayed, this being rendered possible by the delay which is to be found between the event of being born and understanding. Romano envisages the event as a sort of impersonal happening, which reorients the human being’s, i.e. the advenant’s potentialities, thus reconfiguring his intrinsic possibilities. Therefore, from the very beginning, he stresses the difference between innerworldly facts and events. If the former occurs without any specific change in the case of the advenant’s possibilities, the latter involves a certain transformation of the adventant’s world.