Prisotnost in prostor. Kritika časa

Abstract

Presence and Space. A Critique of Time - We live in a society that frantically tries to transform the entirety of life into a predictable structure. The uniformity of human behavior and thinking as a result of globalization and digitization of the world bears witness to such an aspiration. With its division into past, present, and future, time represents a tripartite structure, which fragments human life, and thus helps shape anxieties and hopes of humanity. Within the Western philosophy, three ontologies of time have been formulated, in order to facilitate its understanding. The contribution explores characteristics and limitations of each of them, dedicating special attention to the third ontology of time that was, with an emphasis on eternity, developed in the work of Emanuele Severino. We continue on the path of a critique of time with a consideration of its intimate connection with the thinking mind and the way, in which thought operates within the presumed “beyond” that is mostly expressed through problematizations and projections concerning the past and the future. Such an internal logic of thought demonstrates why the possibility of timelessness, when it emerged in certain Western thinkers, nonetheless remained underdeveloped. We seek to take precisely this possibility seriously as a kind of immediacy, which calmly withholds itself from the belief in the existence of time, and which is articulated through the contemplation upon consciousness, space, and presence.

Keywords

• time
• ontology
• consciousness
• space
• presence