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Breached Horizons Breached Horizons The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion Edited by Rachel Bath, Antonio Calcagno, Kathryn Lawson, and Steve G. Lofts Published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd Unit A, Whitacre Mews, 26–34 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AB www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd. is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706, USA With additional offices in Boulder, New York, Toronto (Canada), and Plymouth (UK) www.rowman.com Copyright © 2018 by Rachel Bath, Antonio Calcagno, Kathryn Lawson and Steve G. Lofts All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. 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Printed in the United States of America Contents Abbreviations of Primary Works by Jean-Luc Marion vii Editor’s Introduction: Traversing the Beyond with Jean-Luc Marion 1 Rachel Bath and Kathryn Lawson 1 How Marion Gives Himself 13 Kevin Hart 2 The Question of the Reduction 27 Jean-Luc Marion PART I: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST 49 3 Amor et Memoria 51 Ugo Perone 4 Givenness, Grace, and Marion’s Augustinianism 65 Felix Ó Murchadha 5 Ways of Being Given: Investigating the Bounds of Givenness through Marion and Husserl 79 Pierre-Jean Renaudie 6 On the Threshold of Distance: The Origins of the Gift-Question in Marion 87 Ryan Coyne v vi Contents PART II: PRESENT OPENINGS 107 7 Reading Textual Dramatics: Marion, Levinas, and the Interplay of Affection and Reason 109 Stephen E. Lewis 8 The Moving Icon: Critically Seeking the Aesthetic in Marion and Finding a Phenomenological Alternative with Husserl 123 Jodie McNeilly 9 Love without Bodies 135 Cassandra Falke 10 “As an Orpheus of Phenomenality . . .” 151 Kevin Hart PART III: BREACHING FUTURE HORIZONS 173 11 Discovering Human Insufficiency with Marion: From Vanity to Weakness of Will 175 Jennifer Rosato 12 Marion’s Spirituality of Adoration and Its Implications for a Phenomenology of Religion 188 Christina M. Gschwandtner 13 From Negative Theology to Hermeneutics: Marion as Interpreter of Saint Paul 218 Claudio Tarditi 14 An Excess of Happiness: The Approach of Marion 231 Jeffrey L. Kosky 15 Flight from the Flesh: Freud’s Id and Ego as Saturated Phenomena 252 Brian Becker Index 269 About the Contributors 273 Abbreviations of Primary Works by Jean-Luc Marion BG Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness. Translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. BS Believing in Order to See: On the Rationality of Revelation and the Irrationality of Some Believers. Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. CN Certitudes négatives. Paris: Grasset, 2010. CNV Ce que nous voyons et ce qui apparaît, overture de François Soulages. Brysur-Marne: INA Éditions, 2015. COV The Crossing of the Visible. Translated by James K. A. Smith. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. CQ Cartesian Questions: Method and Metaphysics. Translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky, John Cottingham, and Stephen Voss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. CV Le croire pour le voir. Paris: Parole et Silence, 2010. DI “D’autrui à l’individu.” In Emmanuel Levinas, Positivité et transcen- dance, suivi d’Études sur Levinas et la phénoménologie. Edited by Jean-Luc Marion. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2000. DMP On Descartes’ Metaphysical Prism: The Constitution and Limits of Onto-theo-logy in Cartesian Thought. Translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. DS De surcroît: Études sur les phénomènes saturés. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2001. DSE Dieu sans l’être: Hors-texte. Paris: Arthème Fayard, 1982. ED Étant donné: Essai d’une phénoménologie de la donation. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1997. vii viii Abbreviations of Primary Works by Jean-Luc Marion EG On the Ego and on God: Further Cartesian Questions. Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. EP The Erotic Phenomenon. Translated by Stephen E. Lewis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. FP Figures de phénoménologie: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Henry, Derrida. Paris: J. Vrin, 2012. GH Givenness and Hermeneutics. Translated by Jean-Pierre Lafouge. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2012. GP “The Gift of a Presence.” In Prolegomena to Charity, 124–152. Translated by Stephen E. Lewis. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. GWB God without Being: Hors-texte. Translated by Thomas A. Carlson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. IA “L’intentionalité de l’amour.” In Prolégomènes à la charité. Paris: La Différence, 1986. IAD The Idol and Distance: Five Studies. Translated by Thomas A. Carlson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2001. ID L’idole et la distance. Paris: Grasset, 1977. IE In Excess: Studies of Saturated Phenomena. Translated by Vincent Berraud and Robyn Horner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. IM “The Impossible for Man—God.” In Transcendence and Beyond. Edited by John Caputo and Michael Scanlon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. ITN “In the Name: How to Avoid Speaking of ‘Negative Theology.’ ” In God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, 20–41. Edited by John D. Caputo and M.J. Scanlon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. LS Au lieu de soi: l’approche de Saint Augustine. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2008. MM “Mihi magna quaestio factus sum: The Privilege of Unknowing,” in The Journal of Religion (2005): 1–24. MP “Metaphysics and Phenomenology: A Relief for Theology.” Translated by Thomas A. Carlson, in Critical Inquiry 20, no. 4 (1994): 572–591. NC Negative Certainties. Translated by Stephen E. Lewis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. NIO “Note sur l’indifférence ontologique.” In Emmanuel Levinas. L’éthique comme philosophie première. Edited by J. Greisch and J. Rolland. Paris: Le Cerf, 1993. PC Prolegomena to Charity. Translated by Stephen E. Lewis. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Abbreviations of Primary Works by Jean-Luc Marion ix PE Le phénomène érotique: six méditations. Paris: Grasset, 2003. PG “The Phenomenology of Givenness.” In Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology, 40–65. Edited by Tarek R. Dika and W. Chris Hackett. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. PP Sur la pensée passive de Descartes. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2013. RAG Reduction and Givenness. Translated by Thomas Carlson. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1998. RC La rigueur des choses: entretiens avec Dan Arbib. Paris: Flammarion, 2012. RD Réduction et Donation. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1989. RG The Reason of the Gift. Translated by Stephen E. Lewis. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. RML “Resting, Moving, Loving: The Access to the Self according to Saint Augustine,” in The Journal of Religion 91 (2011): 24–42. RT The Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib. Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. SD Sur la théologie blanche de Descartes. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1981. SP In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. UR “Understanding Revelation: A Phenomenological Re-Appropriation,” Second of the Gifford Lectures: Unpublished, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZdIP0GOxs. VR The Visible and the Revealed. Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. WS “What We See and What Appears.” Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner. In Idol Anxiety. Edited by Josh Ellenbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft, 152–168. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011.