Had-Been-ness and Past

In many respects and quite often the past seems to dominate the present in Central and Eastern Europe, mainly in Romania. Commencing from this existential situation, the study reconsiders the issue of the past. The surpassing of the treatment of the issue of mentality and putting in brackets of the very abstract philosophical category of time was necessary for this. We must analyse our "experiences" from an ontological-phenomenological and hermeneutic perspective. This reveals that the past is not something that has already happened and come to an end but it is the sphere of special possibilities ontologically formed of a no-longer-being which creates several existential and historical tasks.

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