Lacoste Jean-Yves - Ontotheological Turnings?: The Decentering of the Modern Subject in Recent French Phenomenology

SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought

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Ontotheological Turnings?

The Decentering of the Modern Subject in Recent French Phenomenology

JOERI SCHRIJVERS

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Schrijvers, Joeri.

Ontotheological turnings? : the decentering of the modern subject in recent French phenomenology / Joeri Schrijvers.

p. cm. (SUNY series in theology and Continental thought)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 978-1-4384-3893-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Phenomenological theology. 2. Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946 3. Lacoste, Jean-Yves. 4. Lvinas, Emmanuel. I. Title.

BT40.S365 2011

230.01dc22 2011003138

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To the memory of Saskia Vermeulen

Acknowledgments

I should like to offer my gratitude to my promoter, Lieven Boeve, who supported this work in a manifold of generous ways. A word of thanks also to Jean-Yves Lacoste and Kevin Hart who were so kind as to participate in the jury and commented upon earlier versions of this text.

This work has benefited much from the encouragement of and conversations with my colleagues. I would like to thank the members of the research group Theology in a Postmodern Context for the inspiring environment from which this work sprang and for the friendship they have given me. Special mention also to Michael Funk Deckard for taking so much care with the text. Finally, my gratitude to FWO-Flanders, for granting me the scholarship that enabled me to write this work. Thanks also to Nancy, Eileen, Anne, and Doug at SUNY for the smooth cooperation with this volume.

, Some Notes on a French Debate, is a revised and extended version of New Blackfriars 87 (2006), pp. 30214, On Doing Theology after Ontotheology: Notes on a French Debate.

is a revised and extended version of two articles that have appeared earlier: Phenomenology, Liturgy, and Metaphysics: The Thought of Jean-Yves Lacoste, in God in France: Eight Contemporary French Thinkers on God, eds. P. Jonkers and R. Welten (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), pp. 20725, and Jean-Yves Lacoste: A Phenomenology of the Liturgy, Heythrop Journal 46 (2005), pp. 31433.

Portions of are taken from Ontotheological Turnings? Marion, Lacoste, and Levinas on the Decentering of the Modern Subject, in Modern Theology 22 (2006), pp. 22153, and Marion on Miracles: Of Insufficient Reason and a New Enlightenment, in Faith in the Enlightenment? The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited ed. Lieven Boeve, Joeri Schrijvers, Wessel Stoker and Henk Vroom (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006).

is a corrected version of And There Shall Be No More Boredom Problems with Overcoming Metaphysics (Heidegger, Levinas, Marion), in C. Cunningham and P. Candler (eds.), Transcendence and Phenomenology (London: SCM Press, 2007).

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