If the appearing of the world gives (itself to) experience only through the trans-formation of inter-mediation that at once reveals and conceals its radically fragile contingency, art, with the manifold ramifications of its enactments, with the prodigious diversity of its works, re-presents, by ceaselessly recurring to the be-coming of being, one of the fundamental proficiencies of making (not only) visible, (but also) audible, palpable, and still differently, distinctly significant the transference of appearance(s). Can, conversely, appearing itself, as such, as an eventful process and as a processual event, (not), therefore, be thematized, before being considered as a product of artifice or artificiality, before attaining the status of an artifact, as the (“primordial,” “originary”) artistry of the world?

The International Symposium in Hermeneutic Philosophy brought together scholars at various stages of academic advancement, both teachers as well as students, to collectively, within a welcoming atmosphere of dialogical exchange, discuss in detail the (phenomenological) questions and the (hermeneutical) problems appertaining to the contemporary—lack of? loss of?—experience of appearing.