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(1966) Conditio humana, Dordrecht, Springer.
A bouquet of fireworks for the birthday celebrant, so much of whose thinking has been guided by "the everyday life world", may at first seem surprising. But if that should be the case, is it not that our own everyday life has become so crowded that we confine ourselves within the opposition of "everyday" to "holiday", having lost the vista of the open, common world from which the two kinds of days divide? If this is true, then it should be possible to show a sense in the phenomena of fireworks that pervades our everydays as well as our holidays like Independence Day or New Year's. Of course if we can do this, we should expect "the lightness of fireworks" to undergo a change of inflection as we pass from the time of celebration to the time of the ordinary everyday. At the same time we may be able to see how the time of celebration derives from a sharpening and purification of a particular moment or moments in the everyday open and shared world.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-85978-6_7
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Eng, E. (1966)., The lightness of fireworks, in W. Baeyer & R. M. Griffith (eds.), Conditio humana, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 74-83.
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