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As the fifth book of Homer’s Odyssey comes to a close, Odysseus is stranded on the island of the Phaiakians, and he seeks shelter before nightfall. Near the shore there is a wood where Odysseus hides under some trees. The description of this hiding place merits careful examination. The wood is said to be “in [the] periphenomenal”, but what that means is not immediately clear. In this paper, I shall attempt to confront the strange circumstances of Odysseus’ hiding place, showing that it is paradoxically also a place of manifestation. Reference to Martin Heidegger’s interpretation of the Greek thinker Heraclitus will aid in the understanding of such a paradox.
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Schur, D. (1995). A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Homer, Heraclitus, Heidegger. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life. Analecta Husserliana, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3298-7_16
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