Event and Subjectivity: The Question of Phenomenology in Claude Romano and Jean-Luc Marion

Event and Subjectivity: The Question of Phenomenology in Claude Romano and Jean-Luc Marion
Author: Kadir Filiz
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004689540

Event and Subjectivity presents a rich phenomenological analysis of the event in contemporary phenomenology by focussing on the work of Claude Romano and Jean-Luc Marion. Although the event is a major topic of contemporary philosophy, its centrality has not been acknowledged enough in the phenomenological movement. The book starts with the idea that the event cannot find a proper place in Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Heidegger’s existential phenomenology. It proposes a phenomenological version of the event that transforms the definition of phenomenon, subjectivity and phenomenology itself in order to do justice to the phenomenality of the event. At the same time, Event and Subjectivity is the first book on Claude Romano’s understanding of phenomenology in English. It also offers a fresh reading of the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion by highlighting the phenomenon of the event.

Event and World

Event and World
Author: Claude Romano
Publisher: Perspectives in Continental Ph
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2009
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However central they may be to the question of being in Western thought, from Aristotle to Heidegger, events have always been assigned a derivative status, indeterminate, at the margins of philosophy. Claude Romano seeks to change all that, to describe precisely what sort of phenomenon an event is and to establish how it can be grasped via a phenomenology. He seeks, above all, to understand a human being as one to whom events can occur, who is able to face them and to appropriate them through experience. "Evential hermeneutics" is the name he gives this approach, which conceives human being as an undergoing of events for which there can be no substitution and as thereby becoming himself. Romano at once forces us to think human existence--or rather, human adventure--in the light of events and helps us understand how and why the event has been neglected in the ontological tradition.

Phenomenology and Eschatology

Phenomenology and Eschatology
Author: Dr John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1409478122

This book brings together a world-renowned collection of philosophers and theologians to explore the ways in which the resurgence of eschatological thought in contemporary theology and the continued relevance of phenomenology in philosophy can illuminate each other. Through a series of phenomenological analyses of key eschatological concepts and detailed readings in some of the key figures of both disciplines, this text reveals that phenomenology and eschatology cannot be fully understood without each other: without eschatology, phenomenology would not have developed the ethical and futural aspects that characterize it today; without phenomenology, eschatology would remain relegated to the sidelines of serious theological discourse. Along the way, such diverse themes as time, death, parousia, and the call are re-examined and redefined. Containing new contributions from Jean-Yves Lacoste, Claude Romano, Richard Kearney, Kevin Hart and others, this book is necessary reading for anyone interested in the intersection of contemporary philosophy and theology.

The Amorous Imagination

The Amorous Imagination
Author: D. Andrew Yost
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438484755

In The Amorous Imagination, D. Andrew Yost builds upon Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of love to argue that through the interpretive activities of the imagination the Beloved appears to the lover as this Other, not the Other. Weaving together insights from Romantic thought and contemporary French philosophy, Yost describes the distinctive role the imagination plays in individuating another person so that they appear radically unique, special, and unsubstitutable. This radical uniqueness—or haecceitas—emerges out of the lovers' engagement in an "endless hermeneutic," an ongoing process of creative and responsive meaning-making that grounds the lovers' lives in each other and opens them up to new possibilities. All of this, Yost argues, is made possible by the amorous imagination. Drawing from the deep well of love poetry, mythology, philosophy, and literature The Amorous Imagination comes to the provocative conclusion that without the productive power of the imagination love itself could not emerge.

Phenomenology

Phenomenology
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0826439993

Introduces the history and methods of Phenomenology through the study of four key thinkers: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.

Continental Philosophy and Theology

Continental Philosophy and Theology
Author: Colby Dickinson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004376038

Continental philosophy underwent a ‘return to religion’ or a ‘theological turn’ in the late 20th century. And yet any conversation between continental philosophy and theology must begin by addressing the perceived distance between them: that one is concerned with destroying all normative, metaphysical order (continental philosophy’s task) and the other with preserving religious identity and community in the face of an increasingly secular society (theology’s task). Colby Dickinson argues in Continental Philosophy and Theology rather that perhaps such a tension is constitutive of the nature of order, thinking and representation which typically take dualistic forms and which might be rethought, though not necessarily abolished. Such a shift in perspective even allows one to contemplate this distance as not opting for one side over the other or by striking a middle ground, but as calling for a nondualistic theology that measures the complexity and inherently comparative nature of theological inquiry in order to realign theology’s relationship to continental philosophy entirely.

Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality

Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality
Author: Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 799
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004449345

No one theory of time is pursued in the essays of this volume, but a major theme that threads them together is Wolfson’s signature idea of the timeswerve as a linear circularity or a circular linearity, expressions that are meant to avoid the conventional split between the two temporal modalities of the line and the circle.

Interpreting Excess

Interpreting Excess
Author: Shane Mackinlay
Publisher: Perspectives in Continental Ph
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780823231089

Jean-Luc Marion's theory of saturated phenomena is one of the most exciting developments in phenomenology in recent decades. 'Interpreting Excess' is a systematic and comprehensive study of Marion's texts on saturated phenomena, tracing both his theory and his examples across a wide range of texts.

Phenomenology and Experience

Phenomenology and Experience
Author: Antonio Cimino
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004391037

Experience has been a pivotal philosophical topic since Greek antiquity. The phenomenological movement has also played a crucial role in the history of philosophical theories or ideas of experience. The major contributions of Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology to the philosophical understanding of experience can hardly be overestimated. The ambition of this volume is to illustrate how phenomenology still remains a very fruitful approach that is essential to current philosophical and interdisciplinary debates on experience.

Repetition and Identity

Repetition and Identity
Author: Catherine Pickstock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-10-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199683611

A fresh and unusual perspective on the literary, Catherine Pickstock argues that the mystery of things can only be unravelled through the repetitions of fiction, history, inhabited subjectivity, and revealed event.