Event and World

by Claude Romano

Book Overview

The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However central they may be to the question of being in Western thought, from Aristotle to Heidegger, events have always been assigned a derivative status, indeterminate, at the margins of philosophy.

Claude Romano seeks to change all that, to describe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823229718
• ISBN13: 9780823229710
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"