<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>How much the sense of an event depends on the one who lives it? According to Erwin Straus, there are some phenomena, which impose their sense, and no one in the audience of a performance, for example, can see a wildfire without being afraid of and escaping from it. Binswanger criticizes such a conception and claims that the sense of the event depends on the freedom and the biography of the subject. In this paper we would like to replace the issue in its phenomenological context and to establish that Straus as well as Binswanger are right and wrong but not of course in the same way.</p></abstract>

How much the sense of an event depends on the one who lives it? According to Erwin Straus, there are some phenomena, which impose their sense, and no one in the audience of a performance, for example, can see a wildfire without being afraid of and escaping from it. Binswanger criticizes such a conception and claims that the sense of the event depends on the freedom and the biography of the subject. In this paper we would like to replace the issue in its phenomenological context and to establish that Straus as well as Binswanger are right and wrong but not of course in the same way.

Event and the Sense of the Event: Ludwig Binswanger versus Erwin Straus

Phainomenon

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How much the sense of an event depends on the one who lives it? According to Erwin Straus, there are some phenomena, which impose their sense, and no one in...

Event and the Sense of the Event: Ludwig Binswanger versus Erwin Straus

Published Online: Oct 14, 2021

Page range: 185 - 202

Received: Sep 13, 2018

Accepted: Nov 27, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2018-0015

Keywords
Phenomenology, event, coercion, freedom, Erwin Straus, Ludwig Binswanger

© 2018 Philippe Cabestan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Event and the Sense of the Event: Ludwig Binswanger versus Erwin Straus

Published Online: Oct 14, 2021

Page range: 185 - 202

Received: Sep 13, 2018

Accepted: Nov 27, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2018-0015

KeywordsPhenomenology, event, coercion, freedom, Erwin Straus, Ludwig Binswanger

© 2018 Philippe Cabestan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Phenomenology, event, coercion, freedom, Erwin Straus, Ludwig Binswanger