Abstract

As an alternative to an interpretation of the phenomenon of death that considers it phenomenologically inconceivable, because in Husserl there is said to be a precise conception of the “nowµ that apparently results in a constant association of the notion of life with the experience of consciousness, we intend to show how – considering the sphere of temporalization that the phenomenon of death jags – the difference between immanence and transcendence blurs, with the former revealing itself to be nothing more than the limit of “near transcendenceµ. One would thus enter a “metaphysicalµ sphere, understood as the border, even more than between the empirical and the transcendental, of phenomenality itself and in which the “nowµ as the point-source of the methods of the passing of time would end up coinciding with mere “happeningµ, with the time of timelessness, with the dead time in which death is present.