La presenza secondo l'assenza

The presence according to the absence · The statement ‘presence according to the ab- sence’ is not an oxymoron. On the contrary, it sums up those ‘forms of presence’ that giveness of “d’après”, or according to, the absence. Every day we experience these forms, such as mem- ory, expectation, dreams and others. In these forms of ‘presence according to the absence’, the absence is ‘made present’ due to the simultaneous occurrence of both presence and absence. To think about the absence without making it present and, therefore, in order to think of a possible ‘presence according to the absence’, we have to get out of the simultaneity for which everything is present (even the absence), to think of a different way of mutual ‘giving together’ of presence and absence. This way should be the contemporaneity in which the presence is given according to the absence and not according to the presentificant temporal horizon. The three Wegmarken of this path will be Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas and Søren Kierkegaard, who respec- tively thought the simultaneity of presence and absence as the stream of consciousness, the dia-chronic exit from the present of the presence, and the contemporaneity between Master (past) and disciples (present and future). These three philosophers will mark the path of the exit from the presented absence towards ‘the presence according to the absence’.