Ontotheological Turnings?: The Decentering of the Modern Subject in Recent French Phenomenology

by Schrijvers, Joeri

• ISBN13: 9781438438948
• ISBN10: 143843894X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-02
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Some Notes on a French Debate	p. 5
Introducing Ontotheology	p. 5
The Present and Our Obsession with Objects	p. 7
Jean-Yves Lacoste: The Experience of Faith	p. 9
Jean-Luc Marion: Experiencing the Given	p. 10
Emmanuel Levinas: The Other's Otherness	p. 12
Theology 'after' Ontotheology	p. 14
The Question concerning Ontotheology	p. 16
Phenomenology, Liturgy, and Metaphysics: Jean-Yves Lacoste	p. 25
Lacoste versus Heidegger: Ontological Differences	p. 26
The Liturgical Experience	p. 29
Exodus: Being Exposed to a Nonexperience	p. 29
The Nocturnal Nonexperience as Locus of the Gift and of Conversion	p. 31
Mission and Ethics	p. 35
The Experience of Resting and of the Work of Art	p. 38
Ontology and Affectivity	p. 39
Conclusion and Critical Remarks	p. 41
Phenomenology and Theology	p. 41
The Différend between the World and Creation	p. 44
Decentering the Subject?	p. 46
A Different Différend between the World and Creation	p. 47
From the Subject to the 'Adonné': Jean-Luc Marion	p. 51
The Given Phenomenon, the Gift, and the Third Reduction	p. 52
Reduction, Givenness, and Metaphysics	p. 58
The Saturated Phenomenon	p. 63
The Adonné	p. 70
Conclusion and Critical Remarks	p. 72
On Miracles and Metaphysics: From Marion to Levinas	p. 81
Miracles and Saturation: John Caputo versus Merold Westphal	p. 81
To See or Not to See? Marion's Response to Jocelyn Benoist	p. 84
Longing for Ockham: Of Other Gifts and Other Lovers	p. 86
A Phenomenology of the Icon?	p. 91
How to Avoid a Subject and an Object: Levinas Relation without Relation'	p. 95
Overcoming Ontotheology with Levinas	p. 100
Levinas: Substituting the Subject for Responsibility	p. 105
Language and the 'Relation without Relation'	p. 106
Levinas and the Critique of the Critique of Representation	p. 109
Representation and Kenosis: Giving to the Other	p. 115
Conclusion: Derrida and Levinas	p. 117
Otherwise than Being: Condemned to Be Good	p. 124
Totality and Infinity in Light of Otherwise than Being	p. 124
The Subject's Self Otherwise than Being	p. 130
Intermediary Conclusions and the Question concerning Ontotheology	p. 137
The Turn to 'Jemeinigkeit' in Levinas and Marion	p. 137
The Limits of the Other and/in the Same: Levinas	p. 139
The Limits of the Other and/in the Same: Marion	p. 144
Theological Turns: Admiration against Abandonment	p. 147
Reprise: Theology 'after' Ontotheology	p. 148
"And There Shall Be No More Boredom": Problems with Overcoming Metaphysics	p. 159
Dasein, Metaphysics, and Dasein's Metaphysics (Heidegger)	p. 160
Another Metaphysics: The Metaphysics of the Other (Levinas)	p. 167
A Significant Other? From the Other to the Individual (Marion)	p. 169
Responding ad infinitum?	p. 174
The Consequences of Overcoming Metaphysics for Faith and Theology	p. 176
Marion and Levinas on Metaphysics	p. 179
Marion and/on Ontotheology	p. 180
Nihilism, the Death of God, and the Persistence of Idolatry	p. 180
Marion's Understanding of Ontotheology	p. 183
Who's Afraid of Ontotheology? The Usual Suspects	p. 185
Marion's Understanding of Modern Ontotheology	p. 189
A Metaphysical Schism? Marion and Descartes	p. 192
Intermediary Conclusions	p. 195
Levinas and/on Ontotheology	p. 198
The Said as the Birthplace of Ontology	p. 198
The Said as the Birthplace of Ontotheology	p. 201
Halting the Regress, the God of the Gaps, and Ontotheology	p. 204
Conclusion	p. 207
Conclusion: Toward a Phenomenology of the Invisible	p. 211
Theological Turnings	p. 211
The Privation of Immanence	p. 215
Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Presencing	p. 221
Metaphysics and Society: More Ado about Nothing	p. 225
Turning to Theology? Of the Unredeemedness of the Human Being	p. 229
Notes	p. 239
Index	p. 265
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