The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For is the first English
translation of a work by Jean-Louis Chretien, one of France's
leading phenomenologists. Chretien unfolds the ideas of memory and
loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, in a manner that opens a
phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. This line
of reflection places him in the company of Emmanuel Levinas,
Jean-Luc Marion, and Michel Henry, in attempting to join philosophy
and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.
The extremities of time exceed our memory and expectation. For
philosophy, beginning with Plato, the truth of being is immemorable
and cannot be rediscovered except in passing through forgetfulness.
How are we to understand this first forgetting? Modern analyses
live from a denial of loss: everything would be unforgettable, and
is always preserved in memory.
For Christian thought, to hope against all hope and to remember
the origin are two essential acts of faith. Memory must die in
order to be reborn, in order to purify itself of all nostalgia and
become memory of the promise. Augustine and John of the Cross,
after Philo the Jew, teach us what contemporary thought has begun
to rediscover: only the Other is unforgettable, for it alone is
unhoped for.
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