Reading Jean-Luc Marion
Subtitle: exceeding metaphysics
By: Christina M. Gschwandtner.
Series: Indiana series in the philosophy of religion
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253349774; 9780253219459
Subjects: Marion, Jean-Luc, -- 1946-; Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650; Metaphysics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "this theological veering which is too obvious"; title: Descartes and metaphysics : "metaphysics opens upon its modernity"; title: Theology and metaphysics : "with respect to being does God have to behave like Hamlet?"; title: Phenomenology and metaphysics : "unfolding the fold of the given"; title: Descartes and God : "a solitary; title: abandoned on a field in ruins"; title: Theology and God : "the glory of the divine befalls us only obliquely"; title: Phenomenology and God : "it is impossible for God to be impossible"; title: Descartes and the self : "the ego and the god of the philosopher evaluate each other from a distance"; title: Phenomenology and the self : "the self that comes after the subject"; title: Charity and eros : "one must substitute erotic meditations for the metaphysical meditations"; title: Conclusion: "between evidence and charity one must choose".