Percepție temporală și lume a experienței
Temporal Perception and the World of Experience

Summary/Abstract: The study examines how different representations of temporality arise from distinct forms of lived experience. The perception of time is always mediated by images, representations, and pre-understandings shaped within the lifeworld, so that the meaning of temporality cannot be separated from lived experience. Several exemplary situations are discussed: the confessional experience of time in St. Augustine, transformations in the structure of temporality under certain existential dispositions such as melancholy or boredom, interpretations of cyclical time and absurd repetition, as well as the way in which, within the European cultural horizon, the present becomes the privileged locus for the constitution of meaning for both past and future. In contrast, other modes of temporal perception are considered, illustrated by Japanese literature and by Gadamer’s hermeneutic reflections on “empty time” and “proper time” (Eigenzeit). The analysis suggests that temporality cannot be reduced to a simple succession of moments but is constituted through concrete experiences of life, affective dispositions, and distinct cultural horizons.

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