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Interpreting Excess - Jean-Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics (Hardcover)
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Interpreting Excess - Jean-Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Jean-Luc Marion's theory of saturated phenomena is one of the most
exciting developments in phenomenology in recent decades. It opens
up new possibilities for understanding phenomena by beginning from
rich and complex examples such as revelation and works of art.
Rather than being curiosities or exceptions, these "excessive" or
"saturated" phenomena are, in Marion's view, paradigms. He
understands more straightforward phenomena, such as the objects of
the natural sciences, as reduced and impoverished versions of the
excess given in saturated phenomena. Interpreting Excess is a
systematic and comprehensive study of Marion's texts on saturated
phenomena and their place in his wider phenomenology of givenness,
tracing both his theory and his examples across a wide range of
texts spanning three decades. The author argues that a rich
hermeneutics is implicit in Marion's examples of saturated
phenomena but is not set out in his theory. This hermeneutics makes
clear that attempts to overthrow the much-criticized sovereignty of
the Cartesian ego will remain unsuccessful if they simply reverse
the subject-object relation by speaking of phenomena imposing
themselves with an overwhelming givenness on a recipient. Instead,
phenomena should be understood as appearing in a hermeneutic space
already opened by a subject's active reception. Thus, a
phenomenon's appearing depends not only on its givenness but also
on the way it is interpreted by the receiving subject. All
phenomenology is, therefore, necessarily hermeneutic. Interpreting
Excess provides an indispensable guide for any study of Marion's
saturated phenomena. It is also a significant contribution to
ongoing debates about philosophical ways of thinking about God, the
relation between hermeneutics and phenomenology, and philosophy
"after the subject."
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