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The book advocates for a rethinking of phenomenology, emphasizing its unique contribution to philosophy by presenting a "new image of Reason." Claude Romano critiques other 20th-century philosophical movements, including logical empiricism and Wittgenstein's grammatical philosophy, highlighting how phenomenology distinguishes itself through its approach. This reformulation aims to clarify phenomenology's original intentions and its relevance in contemporary philosophical discourse.

The book explores the evolution of contemporary philosophy's understanding of time, emphasizing that it is shaped by the subject's actions and attitudes rather than being an inherent quality of objects. It traces the development of this idea from Kant to Heidegger, highlighting how concepts like expectation, memory, and decision-making contribute to the temporal experience. This focus on the subjective nature of time invites a re-examination of its role in human existence and perception.

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. This title seeks to change that, to describe what sort of phenomenon an event is and to establish how it can be grasped via a phenomenology.