ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I attempt to say something of the event from the perspective of theologies and philosophies of the other. My argument is that philosophies of alterity ought to be read as narrations, expressions of thought and being that can only be narrated. This is so insofar as the chronologic of narrative is present as the condition for the possibility of putting into language that which, according to language, precedes and exceeds the bifurcation between before and after, to cite the description of Elliot R. Wolfson, as mystical unity or the simultaneity of the revelation of the other. Theologies and philosophies of the other render through narrative that which breaks narrative. Linear chronological time that is constituted by discretion and singularity contra unity makes possible the appearance, if only via negation, of absence as such, as Elliot R. Wolfson describes in his own work. What I attempt is to explicate how narrative appears as the form of thought proper to the event. In addition, I describe what is happening regarding time within such narrations.
