Posibilitatea recuperării „duratei imediate“ în Eul și lumea de I.D. Gherea
The Possibility of „Immediate Duration” Recovery in Eul și Lumea [The Self and the World] by I.D. Gherea

Summary/Abstract: In I. D. Gherea’s work Eul și lumea we acknowledge that, amongst all durations, only one is immediate, namely our own. In order to cooperate with the others within a society, we tend to overlook this fact. In this essay I intend to exhibit this immediate duration by emphasizing the way in which we, according to I.D. Gherea, most of the times, fail to notice it, and the effects that this increasing forgottenness brings along. I will describe the manner in which our own duration undergoes a desintegration process in two steps: at first I will depict how time is erroneusly understood by assuming that it can have the same attributes as space does, and then I will analyse how the fact that we picture ourselves in analogy with other people influences the perception of our own duration. In order to be able to understand and join I.D. Gherea’s endeavour we must first have the „courage” to regard our own duration as isolated from the durations of others, and to be able to detach ourselves from the „complacency” (full of logical contradictions) of the common sense. The purpose of Gherea’s work is not to build a solipsistic point of view, but rather to redraw boundaries between our own immediate duration and the induced durations, i.e. the ones which our duration projects in the outside world. It is worthwhile to ask: does Gherea’s work offer us the possibility to reverse the steadily increasing process of self-forgottenness, the chance to reshape „the cell [which has] molten in the social organism”?

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