Abstract

The principle of ‘saving the phenomena’ appears to structure the history of physics as much as the history of philosophy or meta-physics. Emanuele Severino’s singular philosophical contribution may be traced to an unprecedented answer to the meta-physical question of saving the phenomena: phenomena do not need to be saved, Severino argues; they have always and already saved themselves. Their having always and forever saved themselves consists, according to Severino, in their eternity.