A TYPOLOGY OF EVENTS

Abstract

The following article first examines the origins of event thinking in continental philosophy. It is a relatively new topic and is essentially connected to the critique of the subject in postmodernity. The subject has lost its unity, transparency, rationality, and power of cognition and action. It has become a passive receiver. This transformation of the world and the image of the subject is also expressed in event philosophy and is continued by it. Event philosophy confronts the subject, which has become passive, with the Other, which comes unpredictably and uncontrollably and changes everything. Nevertheless, the concept of an event is ambiguous. There is no unified continental philosophy of the event. This article attempts to present some essential approaches. It focuses primarily on the phenomenological-hermeneutic, structuralist-poststructuralist, and metaphysical or negative-ontological approaches to the study of events. Finally, the article presents the typology of events developed by the author. It is an attempt to classify various events according to their structures. The goal of this project is, on the one hand, to preserve the diversity of the event. A typology consciously works against a totalitarian and uniform philosophy of events. On the other hand, it works structurally, not limiting itself to specific events but grouping individual events into types. Within this theoretical framework, the events of life become more organized and visible. Life is illuminated.