Fabio Merlini, Horizons of sense in time

The process of giving a sense involves all human practices and addresses the moral and aesthetic judgments, which are at the basis of our understanding of the world and of interpersonal relationships. For this, sense escapes from the temporality of pure present, because – in the articulate passage past-present-future – it claims a deeper and more problematic relationship with the historical event. In this direction, starting from the great tableau of Husserl’s Krisis and interpreting the historical and social transience of the subjectivities which change rapidly into “forms of life”, the essay collects the contradiction – always present and problematic – between a “horizon without sense” and, on the contrary, “a sense without horizon”.

Published on: Sense and action, N. 20 New Series – Year X 2014