Instante y situación. Problematización de la relación entre instante y situación en torno a Ser y tiempo de Martin Heidegger

Abstract

The article makes the concept of moment in Heidegger’s early works, and particularly in Being and Time, problematic. First, it attempts to show the extent to which the moment as vision (Augenblick) is not what opens the situation, but rather that the situation as a space of concern is what makes the instant possible. Secondly, it elucidates the moment as a responsive phenomenon and links it with a sudden, decisive, and alterative event that shapes the situation to which it is an answer. Thirdly, the article shows how the moment has a repercussion on the emergence of the situation. Finally, it specifies the essentially spatiotemporal character of the phenomenon.