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Jean-Luc Marion is one of the leading Catholic thinkers of our
time: a formidable authority on Descartes and a major scholar in
the philosophy of religion. This book presents a concise,
accessible, and engaging introduction to the theology of Jean-Luc
Marion. Described as one of the leading thinkers of his generation,
Marion's take on the postmodern is richly enhanced by his expertise
in patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern
philosophy. In this first introduction to Marion's thought, Robyn
Horner provides the essential background to Marion's work, as well
as analysing the most significant themes for contemporary theology.
This book serves as an ideal starting point for students of
theology and philosophy, as well as for those seeking to further
their knowledge of cutting-edge thinking in contemporary theology.
Jean-Luc Marion is one of the leading Catholic thinkers of our
time: a formidable authority on Descartes and a major scholar in
the philosophy of religion. This book presents a concise,
accessible, and engaging introduction to the theology of Jean-Luc
Marion. Described as one of the leading thinkers of his generation,
Marion's take on the postmodern is richly enhanced by his expertise
in patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern
philosophy. In this first introduction to Marion's thought, Robyn
Horner provides the essential background to Marion's work, as well
as analysing the most significant themes for contemporary theology.
This book serves as an ideal starting point for students of
theology and philosophy, as well as for those seeking to further
their knowledge of cutting-edge thinking in contemporary theology.
Rethinking God as Gift is situated at the intersection of
philosophy, critical theory and theology. The first sustained study
of the work of Jean-Luc Marion in English, it offers a unique
perspective on contemporary questions and their theological
relevance. Taking its point of departure from the problem of the
gift as articulated by Jacques Derrida, who argues that the
conditions of possibility of the gift are also its conditions of
impossibility, Horner pursues a series of questions concerning the
nature of thought, the viability of phenomenology, and, most
urgently, the possibility of grace. For Marion, phenomenology, as
the thought of the given, offers a path for philosophy to proceed
without being implicated in metaphysics. His retrieval of several
important insights of Edmund Husserl, along with his reading of
Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel LA(c)vinas, enables him to work out a
phenomenology where even aimpossiblea phenomena such as revelation
and the gift might be examined. In this important confrontation
between Marion and Derrida issues vital to the negotiation of
postmodern concerns in philosophy and theology emerge with vigour.
The careful elucidation of those issues in an interdisciplinary
context, and the snapshot it provides of the state of contemporary
debate, make Rethinking God as Gift an important contribution to
theological and philosophical discussion.
Rethinking God as Gift is situated at the intersection of
philosophy, critical theory and theology. The first sustained study
of the work of Jean-Luc Marion in English, it offers a unique
perspective on contemporary questions and their theological
relevance. Taking its point of departure from the problem of the
gift as articulated by Jacques Derrida, who argues that the
conditions of possibility of the gift are also its conditions of
impossibility, Horner pursues a series of questions concerning the
nature of thought, the viability of phenomenology, and, most
urgently, the possibility of grace. For Marion, phenomenology, as
the thought of the given, offers a path for philosophy to proceed
without being implicated in metaphysics. His retrieval of several
important insights of Edmund Husserl, along with his reading of
Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel LA(c)vinas, enables him to work out a
phenomenology where even aimpossiblea phenomena such as revelation
and the gift might be examined. In this important confrontation
between Marion and Derrida issues vital to the negotiation of
postmodern concerns in philosophy and theology emerge with vigour.
The careful elucidation of those issues in an interdisciplinary
context, and the snapshot it provides of the state of contemporary
debate, make Rethinking God as Gift an important contribution to
theological and philosophical discussion.
In the third book in the trilogy that includes Reduction and
Givenness and Being Given. Marion renews his argument for a
phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the
phenomena of event, idol, flesh, and icon. Turning explicitly to
hermeneutical dimensions of the debate, Marion masterfully draws
together issues emerging from his close reading of Descartes and
Pascal, Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas and Henry. Concluding with a
revised version of his response to Derrida, In the Name: How to
Avoid Speaking of It, Marion powerfully re-articulates the
theological possibilities of phenomenology.
In the third book in the trilogy that includes Reduction and
Givenness and Being Given. Marion renews his argument for a
phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the
phenomena of event, idol, flesh, and icon. Turning explicitly to
hermeneutical dimensions of the debate, Marion masterfully draws
together issues emerging from his close reading of Descartes and
Pascal, Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas and Henry. Concluding with a
revised version of his response to Derrida, In the Name: How to
Avoid Speaking of It, Marion powerfully re-articulates the
theological possibilities of phenomenology.
Religious and atheistic belief are presented anew in a volume of
essays from leading phenomenologists in both France and the UK.
Atheism, often presented as the negation of religious belief, is
here engaged with from a phenomenologically informed notion of
experience. The focus on experience, sparks new debates in readings
of belief, faith and atheism as they relate to and complicate each
other. What unites the contributors is their relationship to
phenomenology as it has developed in France in the wake of
Heidegger and Husserl. Leading French intellectuals from this
context, Jean-Luc Nancy, Quentin Meillassoux, and Catherine
Malabou, amongst others, contribute arresting ideas on atheistic
faith, the death of God, and anarchic faith, opening up new areas
of understanding in a field whose parameters and core concepts are
ever shifting. Revealing the extent to which religious and
atheistic belief must be seen to influence, and on a fundamental
level, to co-create one another, the pluralistic society in which
religious belief is counted as one option amongst many is given
primacy. The fact that religious faith has become not only optional
but also, in many contexts, strangely alienated from society,
deeply modifies the experience of the believer as much as that of
the non-believer. A focus on 'experience', over and above 'belief',
moves us towards a mode of experiential knowledge which refuses to
privilege the atheistic believer and deride the reality of
religious belief.
Belief and credal commitment sometimes seem to make less and less
sense in the West. A kind of 'cultural amnesia' has taken hold,
where formal religious adherence begins to seem almost unthinkable.
This is especially so for the idea of divine revelation. Robyn
Horner argues this means we need to re-evaluate how theology
proceeds, focusing not so much on beliefs but on experience.
Exploring ways in which the experiential might open human beings up
to divine possibility, the author turns to phenomenology
(especially in the French philosophical tradition) because it seeks
to examine unrestrictedly what is given through involved encounter.
Bringing phenomenology and poststructuralism together, Horner
develops the idea of revelation as an 'event' wherein God
interrupts and exceeds human experience, affecting and transforming
it. This striking concept, named but largely unexplored by
theology, articulates a notion of supernatural revelation which now
starts to appear both coherent and plausible.
Religious and atheistic belief are presented anew in a volume of
essays from leading phenomenologists in both France and the UK.
Atheism, often presented as the negation of religious belief, is
here engaged with from a phenomenologically informed notion of
experience. The focus on experience, sparks new debates in readings
of belief, faith and atheism as they relate to and complicate each
other. What unites the contributors is their relationship to
phenomenology as it has developed in France in the wake of
Heidegger and Husserl. Leading French intellectuals from this
context, Jean-Luc Nancy, Quentin Meillassoux, and Catherine
Malabou, amongst others, contribute arresting ideas on atheistic
faith, the death of God, and anarchic faith, opening up new areas
of understanding in a field whose parameters and core concepts are
ever shifting. Revealing the extent to which religious and
atheistic belief must be seen to influence, and on a fundamental
level, to co-create one another, the pluralistic society in which
religious belief is counted as one option amongst many is given
primacy. The fact that religious faith has become not only optional
but also, in many contexts, strangely alienated from society,
deeply modifies the experience of the believer as much as that of
the non-believer. A focus on ‘experience’, over and above
‘belief’, moves us towards a mode of experiential knowledge
which refuses to privilege the atheistic believer and deride the
reality of religious belief.
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