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

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Author:   Joeri Schrijvers
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
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9781438438948

ISBN 10:   143843894
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   02 July 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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 'Adonne': Jean-Luc Marion The Given Phenomenon, the Gift, and the Third Reduction Reduction, Givenness, and Metaphysics The Saturated Phenomenon The Adonne 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

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This book is well-researched and well argued ... highly recommended. - Comparative and Continental Philosophy Schrijvers is very thorough in his elaboration of his philosophical 'sparring partners' ... The book can serve as a critical introduction to the thoughts of Levinas, Marion and Lacoste in particular and French philosophy of religion in general. - Modern Theology ...[an] impressive work. - Religious Studies Review

"""This book is well-researched and well argued ... highly recommended."" - Comparative and Continental Philosophy ""Schrijvers is very thorough in his elaboration of his philosophical 'sparring partners' ... The book can serve as a critical introduction to the thoughts of Levinas, Marion and Lacoste in particular and French philosophy of religion in general."" - Modern Theology ""...[an] impressive work."" - Religious Studies Review"

Schrijvers is very thorough in his elaboration of his philosophical 'sparring partners' ... The book can serve as a critical introduction to the thoughts of Levinas, Marion and Lacoste in particular and French philosophy of religion in general. - Modern Theology ...[an] impressive work. - Religious Studies Review

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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.

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