Mythopoetics

The notions of philosophy belong to the Überlebenswelt. Some of them are formalizations of Lebenswelt words and narratives, but soon enough they become technical objects for the art of thinking, obscuring them for their everyday use though clearing their semantic field by fixing and simplifying their references. The more basic the notions taken from the Lebenswelt, the more difficult the philosophical dealings with them, for we commonly mistake what seems obvious for what is simple and needs less thought. When those notions are exomorphisms, limits for our thinking beyond which we cannot even conceive, then we can barely say anything about them. Such is the case of presence , which leads us to the notions of being at hand ,  being here (praes-ens) and related ones. In some cases, the philological investigation leads to further problems. In its use and custom, presence functions in most European languages as some sort of epiphany of power emanating from a person, a connotation ...