Givenness and God : questions of Jean-Luc Marion / edited by Ian Leask and Eoin Cassidy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leask, Ian Graham.

Cassidy, Eoin G.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy 1089-3938 ; no. 43.

Perspectives in continental philosophy, 1089-3938 ; [no. 43]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946-.

Marion, Jean-Luc.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 346 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.

Summary:

After the subject and beyond Heideggerian ontology, Marion suggests, there is the sheer givenness ofphenomena without condition. In theology, this liberationmeans rethinking God in terms of phenomena such aslove, gift, and excess. In addition to an important essayby Marion, The Reason of the Gift, and a dialoguebetween Marion and Richard Kearney, this book containsstimulating essays by ten other contributors: Lilian Alweiss, Eoin Cassidy, Mark Dooley, Brian Elliott, Ian Leask, Shane Mackinlay, Derek Morrow, John ODonohue, Joseph S. OLeary, and Felix Murchadha.

Contents:

Part 1 Marion on Descartes, Husserl, and Heidegger

1 The Conceptual Idolatry of Descartes's Gray Ontology: An Epistemology "Without Being" / Derek J. Morrow 11

2 I Am, I Exist / Lilian Alweiss 37

3 Hubris and Humility: Husserl's Reduction and Givenness / Timothy Mooney 47

4 Glory, Idolatry, Kairos: Revelation and the Ontological Difference in Marion / Felix O Murchadha 69

5 Reduced Phenomena and Unreserved Debts in Marion's Reading of Heidegger / Brian Elliott 87

Part 2 Marion: Gift and Reception

6 The Reason of the Gift / Jean-Luc Marion 101

7 The Gift: A Trojan Horse in the Citadel of Phenomenology? / Joseph S. O'Leary 135

8 Phenomenality in the Middle: Marion, Romana, and the Hermeneutics of the Event / Shane Mackinlay 167

9 The Dative Subject (and the "Principle of Principles") / Ian Leask 182

10 Marion's Ambition of Transcendence / Mark Dooley 190

Part 3 Marion and Beyond

11 Le phenomene erotique: Augustinian Resonances in Marion's Phenomenology of Love / Eoin Cassidy 201

12 Hermeneutics of the Possible God / Richard Kearney 220

13 Giving More / Jean-Luc Marion, Richard Kearney in Dialogue 243

14 The Absent Threshold: An Eckhartian Afterword / John O'Donohue 258.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-339) and index.

ISBN:

0823224503

0823224511

OCLC:

58546884