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| [[Image:Real_presences.jpeg|right|frame|<center>[[Real Presences]]</center>]] | | [[Image:Real_presences.jpeg|right|frame|<center>[[Real Presences]]</center>]] |
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| */ˈprɛzəns/ | | */ˈprɛzəns/ |
| *Hyphenation: pres'·ence | | *Hyphenation: pres'·ence |
| <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Presence''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Presence this link].</center> | | <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Presence''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Presence this link].</center> |
− | ===Noun===
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| # The [[fact]] or condition of being present. | | # The [[fact]] or condition of being present. |
| # The part of [[space]] within one's immediate vicinity. | | # The part of [[space]] within one's immediate vicinity. |
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| # A company's business activity in a particular market. | | # A company's business activity in a particular market. |
| # The state of [[being]] closely [[focus]]ed on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts | | # The state of [[being]] closely [[focus]]ed on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts |
| + | ==Metaphysics== |
| + | The [[concept]] of the [[metaphysics]] of presence is an important consideration within the area of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction deconstruction]. The deconstructive interpretation holds that the entire [[history]] of [[Western Philosophy|Western philosophy]] and its [[language]] and [[traditions]] has emphasized the [[desire]] for [[immediate]] access to [[meaning]], and thus built a metaphysics or ontotheology around the privileging of presence over [[absence]]. |
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| + | Deconstructive thinkers, like [[Jacques Derrida]], describe their task as the questioning or deconstruction of this metaphysical tendency in philosophy. This [[argument]] is largely based on the earlier work of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger], who in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Time Being and Time]'' claimed the parasitic [[nature]] of the [[theoretical]] [[attitude]] of pure presence upon a more [[Original|originary]] involvement with the world in [[concepts]] such as the ready-to-hand and being-with. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche] is a more distant, but clear, [[influence]] as well. |
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| + | The presence to which Heidegger refers is both a presence as in a "now" and also a presence as in an [[eternal]], always present, as one might associate with [[God]] or the "eternal" of [[laws]] of [[science]]. This hypostatized [[belief]] in presence is undermined by novel phenomenological [[ideas]] — such that presence itself does not subsist, but comes about primordially through the [[action]] of our futural projection, our realization of finitude and the reception or rejection of the [[traditions]] of our [[Moment|time]]. |
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| [[Category: General Reference]] | | [[Category: General Reference]] |