Joeri Schrijvers 
Ontotheological Turnings? [EPUB ebook] 
The Decentering of the Modern Subject in Recent French Phenomenology

This incisive work examines questions of ontotheology and their relation to the so-called ’theological turn’ of recent French phenomenology. Joeri Schrijvers explores and critiques the decentering of the subject attempted by Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Emmanuel Levinas, three philosophers who, inspired by their readings of Heidegger, attempt to overturn the active and autonomous subject. In his consideration of each thinker, Schrijvers shows that a simple reversal of the subject-object distinction has been achieved, but no true decentering of the subject. For Lacoste, the subject becomes God’s intention; for Marion, the subject becomes the object and objective of givenness; and for Levinas, the subject is without secrets, like an object, before a greater Other. Critiquing the axioms and assumptions of contemporary philosophy, Schrijvers argues that there is no overcoming ontotheology. He ultimately proposes a more phenomenological and existential approach, a presencing of the invisible, to address the concerns of ontotheology.

Inhoudsopgave

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations



Introduction



1. Some Notes on a French Debate



Introducing Ontotheology

The Present and Our Obsession with Objects

Jean-Yves Lacoste: The Experience of Faith

Jean-Luc Marion: Experiencing the Given

Emmanuel Levinas: The Other’s Otherness

Theology ‘after’ Ontotheology

The Question concerning Ontotheology



2. Phenomenology, Liturgy, and Metaphysics: Jean-Yves Lacoste



Lacoste versus Heidegger: Ontological Differences

The Liturgical Experience

The Experience of Resting and of the Work of Art

Ontology and Affectivity

Conclusion and Critical Remarks



3. From the Subject to the ‘
Adonné’: Jean-Luc Marion



The Given Phenomenon, the Gift, and the Third Reduction

Reduction, Givenness, and Metaphysics

The Saturated Phenomenon

The
Adonné

Conclusion and Critical Remarks



4. On Miracles and Metaphysics: From Marion to Levinas



Miracles and Saturation: John Caputo versus Merold Westphal

To See or Not to See? Marion’s Response to Jocelyn Benoist

Longing for Ockham: Of Other Gifts and Other Lovers

A Phenomenology of the Icon?

How to Avoid a Subject and an Object: Levinas’ ‘Relation without Relation’

Overcoming Ontotheology with Levinas



5. Levinas: Substitutiong the Subject for Responsibility



Language and the ‘Relation without Relation’

Levinas and the Critique of the Critique of Representation

Representation and Kenosis:
Giving to the Other

Conclusion: Derrida and Levinas


Otherwise than Being: Condemned to Be Good



6. Intermediary Conclusions and the Question concerning Ontotheology



Intermediary Conclusions

Reprise: Theology ‘after’ Ontotheology



7. “And There Shall Be No More Boredom”: Problems with Overcoming Metaphysics



Dasein, Metaphysics, and Dasein’s Metaphysics (Heidegger)

Another Metaphysics: The Metaphysics of the Other (Levinas)

A Significant Other? From the Other to the Individual (Marion)

Responding
ad infinitum?

The Consequences of Overcoming Metaphysics for Faith and Theology



8. Marion and Levinas on Metaphysics



Marion and/on Ontotheology

Marion’s Understanding of Ontotheology

Levinas and/on Ontotheology



Conclusion: Toward a Phenomenology of the Invisible



Theological Turnings

The Privation of Immanence

Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Presencing

Metaphysics and Society: More Ado about Nothing

Turning to Theology? Of the Unredeemedness of the Human Being



Notes

Index

Over de auteur

Joeri Schrijvers is a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Faculty of Theology, at Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He is coeditor (with Lieven Boeve, Wessel Stoker, and Hendrik M. Vroom) of
Faith in the Enlightenment? The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited.