Schrijvers Ontotheological Turnings?

The Decentering of the Modern Subject in Recent French Phenomenology
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3895-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 285 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought

Explores and critiques the so-called “decentering of the subject” in French phenomenology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schrijvers, Joeri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Some Notes on a French Debate

Introducing Ontotheology
The Present and Our Obsession with Objects
Jean-Yves Lacoste: The Experience of Faith
Jean-Luc Marion: Experiencing the Given
Emmanuel Levinas: The Other’s Otherness
Theology ‘after’ Ontotheology
The Question concerning Ontotheology

2. Phenomenology, Liturgy, and Metaphysics: Jean-Yves Lacoste

Lacoste versus Heidegger: Ontological Differences
The Liturgical Experience
The Experience of Resting and of the Work of Art
Ontology and Affectivity
Conclusion and Critical Remarks

3. From the Subject to the ‘Adonné’: Jean-Luc Marion

The Given Phenomenon, the Gift, and the Third Reduction
Reduction, Givenness, and Metaphysics
The Saturated Phenomenon
The Adonné
Conclusion and Critical Remarks

4. On Miracles and Metaphysics: From Marion to Levinas

Miracles and Saturation: John Caputo versus Merold Westphal
To See or Not to See? Marion’s Response to Jocelyn Benoist
Longing for Ockham: Of Other Gifts and Other Lovers
A Phenomenology of the Icon?
How to Avoid a Subject and an Object: Levinas’ ‘Relation without Relation’
Overcoming Ontotheology with Levinas

5. Levinas: Substitutiong the Subject for Responsibility

Language and the ‘Relation without Relation’
Levinas and the Critique of the Critique of Representation
Representation and Kenosis: Giving to the Other
Conclusion: Derrida and Levinas
Otherwise than Being: Condemned to Be Good

6. Intermediary Conclusions and the Question concerning Ontotheology

Intermediary Conclusions
Reprise: Theology ‘after’ Ontotheology

7. “And There Shall Be No More Boredom”: Problems with Overcoming Metaphysics

Dasein, Metaphysics, and Dasein’s Metaphysics (Heidegger)
Another Metaphysics: The Metaphysics of the Other (Levinas)
A Significant Other? From the Other to the Individual (Marion)
Responding ad infinitum?
The Consequences of Overcoming Metaphysics for Faith and Theology

8. Marion and Levinas on Metaphysics

Marion and/on Ontotheology
Marion’s Understanding of Ontotheology
Levinas and/on Ontotheology

Conclusion: Toward a Phenomenology of the Invisible

Theological Turnings
The Privation of Immanence
Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Presencing
Metaphysics and Society: More Ado about Nothing
Turning to Theology? Of the Unredeemedness of the Human Being

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joeri Schrijvers is a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Faculty of Theology, at Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He is coeditor (with Lieven Boeve, Wessel Stoker, and Hendrik M. Vroom) of Faith in the Enlightenment? The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited.