The Idol and Distance Five Studies

by Marion, Jean-Luc; Carlson, Thomas A

• ISBN13: 9780823220786
• ISBN10: 0823220788
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

Summary

Marked sharply by its time and place (Paris in the 1970s), this early theological text by Jean-Luc Marion nevertheless maintains a strikingly deep resonance with his most recent, groundbreaking, and ever more widely discussed phenomenology. And while Marion will want to insist on a clear distinction between the theological and phenomenological projects, to read each in light of the other can prove illuminating for both the theological and the philosophical reader - and perhaps above all for the reader who wants to read in both directions at once, the reader concerned with those points of interplay and undecidability where theology and philosophy inform, provoke, and challenge one another in endlessly complex ways." "In both his theological and his phenomenological projects Marion's central effort to free the absolute or unconditional (be it theology's God or phenomenology's phenomenon) from the various limits and preconditions of human thought and language will imply a thoroughgoing critique of all metaphysics, and above all of the modern metaphysics centered on the active, spontaneous subject who occupies modern philosophy from Descartes through Hegel and Nietzsche.

Author Biography

Jean-Luc Marion is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	xi
English Editions Used	xxxiii
Opening	xxxv
The Marches of Metaphysics	1	(26)
The Idol	1	(8)
The ``God'' of Onto-theology	9	(10)
Discourse to the Athenians	19	(8)
The Collapse of the Idols and Confrontation with the Divine: Nietzsche	27	(54)
The Idol and Metaphysics	27	(9)
The Darkness of Noon	36	(19)
The Christ: Evasion of an Outline	55	(13)
Why Is Nietzsche Still Idolatrous?	68	(13)
Interlude 1	79	(2)
The Withdrawal of the Divine and the Face of the Father: Holderlin	81	(58)
The Measured Image	81	(10)
The Weight of Happiness	91	(12)
Filial Distance	103	(11)
The Only One and His Disappropriation	114	(15)
To Dwell in Distance	129	(10)
Interlude 2	137	(2)
The Distance of the Requisite and the Discourse of Praise: Denys	139	(59)
Unthinkable Eminence	139	(12)
The Request of the Requisite	151	(11)
Immediate Mediation	162	(18)
The Discourse of Praise	180	(18)
Interlude 3	196	(2)
Distance and Its Icon	198	(57)
Distance, Difference	198	(17)
The Other Differant	215	(18)
The Fourth Dimension	233	(22)
Index of Authors	255