Repetition and stability within human temporality : an existential-phenomenological approach

Klun, Branko (author)

This article develops a threefold model of human temporality—ecstatic-horizontal, cycli cal-repetitive, and linear-irreversible—by integrating insights from Heideggerian phe nomenology, embodiment theory, and contemporary phenomenological research. Em phasizing the role of repetition across all three dimensions, the article explores how tem poral structure contributes to the formation and stability of personal identity. Spe cial attention is given to the interplay between consciousness and embodiment, and to the existential implications of finitude. Repetition emerges not as mere recurrence, but as a constitutive act, at times taking on a rhythmic character, through which authenticity, continuity, and self-understanding are enacted within time.

• Language: English
• Keywords: phenomenology, embodiment, temporality, repetition, authenticity
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 25.07.2026
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 23-38
• Numbering: Vol. 76, 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-187241
• UDC: 165.62
• ISSN on article: 2544-8242
• DOI: 10.19205/76.26.2
• COBISS.SI-ID: 290502659
• Publication date in RUL: 09.09.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
• Shortened title: Pol. J. Aesthet.
• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy Jagiellonian University =, Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• ISSN: 2544-8242
• COBISS.SI-ID: 56377603

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: fenomenologija, utelešenje, časovnost, ponavljanje, avtentičnost

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0269-2022
• Name: Religija, etika, edukacija in izzivi sodobne družbe