Returning home

ENThe paper interprets the unique dimensions of awareness without which humans could not engage in any venture. Such dimensions will be called ‘expressive phenomena’, ‘mood space’ or atmosphere’. Poly-centric poly-logue defies the traditional notions of sequential history; poly-logue constitutes a field of temporal depth wherein the ‘past’ partners are not passive, but participate equally in articulating, challenging, and interrogating a specific issue, topic or subject matter. Awareness of others is present not only as poly-logical ‘partners’ in a common venture of meaningful engagement, but above all as expressive; they are present as joyful, sorrowful, indifferent, angry and above all erotic. Thus, our sensibilities are pervaded by expressive phenomena. ‘Immanent transcendence’ means the presence of expressive phenomena which are not identical with the characteristics of things, although things, including humans, are given with these phenomena. The paper explains how the expressive phenomena encompassing human life was abandoned by Western modern metaphysics and ontology. All meanings and expressivity stem from the inner human predisposition to project the conceptions, feelings, thoughts, desires and hopes onto the indifferent, ‘externally-perceived’ world. Our home – this planet – is a place of expressive phenomena which cannot be located inside some individual psyche but is found among and through populations and even things. Keywords: Phenomenology; Expressive phenomena; Communicative community; Polycentrism; Immanent transcendence; Metaphysics; Ontology. Pandemic.