LEISURE, TEMPORALITY AND EXISTENCE: a reading in the light of Heideggerian phenomenology and hermeneutics

Abstract

The present reflection seeks to articulate the central determining factors in current societies and contemporary cultures using the concept of leisure time, investigating its potential and its constraints. The application of Heideggerian phenomenology, including the concepts of dasein and work-of-art, permits the unavoidable necessity of an idle relationship with truth, as something which is both concealed and revealed, both through language and through (im)proper ways of relating between dasein and temporality.