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| | To Be Alive When Something Happens: Retrieving Dilthey's Erlebnis |
 | | Its roots in biographical literature explain a great deal about its character, particularly in the way that an experience carries with it and is attached to the whole of a life: "Every act, as an element of life, remains connected with the infinity of life that manifests itself in it" (Gadamer, TM, 64). |
 | | Because an Erlebnis is always a moment in relation to the rest, standing as a part of the architectonic of a life or a history, it is tied up with all of the machinery of memory, including all forms of expression, communication, and preservation. |
 | | Thus it is much easier for Gadamer to retrieve it in founding his philosophical hermeneutics, and when Ricoeur, following in the German tradition, speaks of "privileged experiences, precious moments," it is to find assurance of being "on the right path" toward the formation of a personality in a social and moral context. |
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