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The Invisible and the Secret: Of a Phenomenology of the Inapparent
Published date: 15 Sep 2016
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I consider in this article Heidegger’s late characterization of phenomenology as a “phenomenology of the inapparent.” Phenomenology is traditionally considered to be a thought of presence, assigned to a phenomenon that is identified with the present being, or with an object for consciousness. The phenomenon would be synonymous with presence itself, with what manifests itself in a presence. However, I will suggest in the following pages that phenomenology is haunted by the presence of a certain unappearing dimension, a claim that was made by Heidegger in his last seminar in 1973, when he characterized the most proper sense of phenomenology as a “phenomenology of the inapparent.” I attempt to show in what sense for Heidegger the “inapparent” plays in phenomenality and in phenomenology, and to then consider (drawing from Levinas and Derrida) its ethical import.
Key words: phenomenology; presence; invisibility; otherness; secret; responsibility
François Raffoul . The Invisible and the Secret: Of a Phenomenology of the Inapparent[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2016 , 11(3) : 395 -414 . DOI: 10.3868/s030-005-016-0029-4
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