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Ontotheological Turnings?: The Decentering of the Modern Subject in Recent French Phenomenology

Ontotheological Turnings?: The Decentering of the Modern Subject in Recent French Phenomenology

Schrijvers, Joeri

Paperback

Series: Suny Theology and Continental Thought

PhilosophyGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 143843894X
ISBN13: 9781438438948
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2012
Pages: 285
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Explores and critiques the so-called decentering of the subject in 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.

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