The temporality of artwork and festival and the temporality of the cosmos: Gadamer’s reflections on time and eternity

Keane, Niall

Abstract

The following examines the concept of time in Gadamer’s work, looking specifically at the role of artwork and festival as focal points of his temporal analysis. It is argued that the usual way of understanding Gadamer’s reflections on time as either “empty” or “fulfilled,” while accurate, need to be supplemented by a third species of time which is neither “full” nor “empty,” pointing instead to the underappreciated role of eternity in his thought. Eternity in this instance is not the other or the outside of time, as one finds in various traditional metaphysical determinations. It is rather intended as the vast and unending time of the cosmos, hinted at in the experience of artwork and festival.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 14, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Aug 4, 2022
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Mar 23, 2023
• Journal: Continental Philosophy Review
• Print ISSN: 1387-2842
• Electronic ISSN: 1573-1103
• Publisher: Springer (part of Springer Nature)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 335-351
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-022-09581-0
• Keywords: Gadamer; Temporality; Artwork; Festival; Eternity
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10502281
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11007-022-09581-0