Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Foreword xv Dermot A. Lane Introduction 1 Ian Leask and Eoin Cassidy P A R T O N E : M A R I O N O N D E S C A R T E S , H U S S E R L , A N D H E I D E G G E R 1 The Conceptual Idolatry of Descartes’s Gray Ontology: An Epistemology ‘‘Without Being’’ 11 Derek J. Morrow 2 I Am, I Exist 37 Lilian Alweiss 3 Hubris and Humility: Husserl’s Reduction and Givenness 47 Timothy Mooney 4 Glory, Idolatry, Kairos: Revelation and the Ontological Difference in Marion 69 Felix Ó Murchadha 5 Reduced Phenomena and Unreserved Debts in Marion’s Reading of Heidegger 87 Brian Elliott vii P A R T T W O : M A R I O N : G I F T A N D R E C E P T I O N 6 The Reason of the Gift 101 Jean-Luc Marion 7 The Gift: A Trojan Horse in the Citadel of Phenomenology? 135 Joseph S. O’Leary 8 Phenomenality in the Middle: Marion, Romana, and the Hermeneutics of the Event 167 Shane Mackinlay 9 The Dative Subject (and the ‘‘Principle of Principles’’) 182 Ian Leask 10 Marion’s Ambition of Transcendence 190 Mark Dooley P A R T T H R E E : M A R I O N A N D B E Y O N D 11 Le phénomène érotique: Augustinian Resonances in Marion’s Phenomenology of Love 201 Eoin Cassidy 12 Hermeneutics of the Possible God 220 Richard Kearney 13 Giving More 243 Jean-Luc Marion and Richard Kearney in Dialogue 14 The Absent Threshold: An Eckhartian Afterword 258 John O’Donohue Notes 285 Contributors 341 Index 345 viii Contents ...