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Etymology edit

From French événementiel.

Adjective edit

evenemential (comparative more evenemential, superlative most evenemential)

  1. Pertaining to events, as directly experienced, as opposed to ideas about them.
    • 1984, Ronald Hoffman, Peter J. Albert, Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution, page 218:
      Rather than finding that thought "disturbing," Clausewitz would suggest that any science of war that left nothing to chance would founder as the "individual in history" made the decisions that are the stuff of "evenemential," or narrative, military history, of the action-reaction phenomena of organized social violence.
    • 2015, Flavia Santoianni, The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy, →ISBN, page 178:
      Unlike evenemential temporality, which captures historicity in real time, we are dealing with a deferred temporality, the recording of an event that has already happened.
    • 2017, Jacques Rancière, Emiliano Battista, Dissenting Words: Interviews with Jacques Rancière, →ISBN, page 62:
      Sometimes, for example when he is speaking about the 'evenemential field', the event appears as objective: the evenemential field is supposedly the same for all historians.

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