Interpreting Excess - Jean-Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics

Informationen zum Autor Shane Mackinlay is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Catholic Theological College (Melbourne College of Divinity). Klappentext Interpreting Excess is a systematic and comprehensive study of Marion's texts on saturated phenomena and their place in his wider phenomenology of givenness, tracing both his theory and his examples across a wide range of texts spanning three decades.The author argues that a rich hermeneutics is implicit in Marion's examples of saturated phenomena but is not set out in his theory. This hermeneutics makes clear that attempts to overthrow the much-criticized sovereigntyof the Cartesian ego will remain unsuccessful if they simply reverse the subject-object relation by speaking of phenomena imposing themselves with an overwhelming givenness on a recipient. Instead, phenomena shouldbe understood as appearing in a hermeneutic space already opened by a subject's active reception. Thus, a phenomenon's appearing depends not only on its givenness but also on the way it is interpreted by the receiving subject. All phenomenology is, therefore, necessarily hermeneutic. Zusammenfassung Presents a comprehensive study of Marion's texts on saturated phenomena and their place in his wider phenomenology of givenness! tracing both his theory and his examples across a wide range of texts. This book argues that a rich hermeneutics is implicit in Marion's examples of saturated phenomena but is not set out in his theory.

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• Autori: Shane MacKinlay, MACKINLAY SHANE
• Editore: Fordham University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780823231089
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-3108-9
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy; Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie