God Without Being: Hors-Texte, Second Edition

345 Pages·2012·21.28 MB·English

by  Marion

God Without Being
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God Without Being
JEAN- LUC MARION
Hors- Texte
SECOND EDITION
Translated by Thomas A. Carlson
With a Foreword by David Tracy
And a New Preface by Jean- Luc Marion
The University of Chicago Press * Chicago and London
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1991, 2012 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Second edition 2012.
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN- 13: 978-0-226-50565-7 (paper)
ISBN- 10: 0-226-50565-0 (paper)
Originally published as Dieu sans l’être: Hors- texte,
© Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1982.
Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-Publication Data
Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946–
[Dieu sans l’être. English]
God without being : hors-texte / Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by
Thomas A. Carlson ; with a foreword by David Tracy ; and a new
preface by Jean-Luc Marion. — Second edition.
p. cm. — (Religion and postmodernism)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50565-7 (paperback : alkaline paper)
ISBN-10: 0-226-50565-0 (paperback : alkaline paper) 1. God
(Christianity) 2. Ontology. 3. Philosophical theology. I. Carlson,
Thomas A. II. Tracy, David. III. Title. IV. Series: Religion and
postmodernism.
BT102.M29913 2012
211—dc23
2011038329
o This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/ NISO Z39.48-1992
(Permanence of Paper).
To Grégoire
From all bodies and minds we
could not draw one movement of
true charity, that is impossible, and
of another, supernatural order.
PASCAL
If I were to write a theology—to
which I sometimes feel inclined—then
the word Being would not occur in it.
Faith does not need the thought of Being
HEIDEGGER
CONTENTS
Foreword xi
Translator’s Acknowledgments xix
Preface to the English Edition (1991) xxi
Preface to the Second Edition (2012) xxix
Envoi 1
God Without Being
ONE
The Idol and the Icon 7
1. First Visible 9
2. Invisible Mirror 11
3. Dazzling Return 14
4. Conceptual Idol 16
5. Icon of the Invisible 17
6. The Face Envisages 18
7. Visible Mirror of the Invisible 20
8. The Icon in the Concept 22
TWO
Double Idolatry 25
1. The Function of the Idol 25
2. The Ambivalence of the Conceptual Idol 29
3. Metaphysics and the Idol 33
4. The Screen of Being 37
5. Note on the Divine and Related Subjects 49
THREE
The Crossing of Being 53
1. The Silence of the Idol 54
2. The Ontological Impediment 61
3. Being or Else (The Good) 73
4. The Indifference to Be 83
5. The Inessential Name Thus First 102
FOUR
The Reverse of Vanity 108
1. Suspension 108
2. Boredom 115
3. Vanity of Vanities 119
4. As If 126
5. Melancholia 132
FIVE
Of the Eucharistic Site of Theology 139
1. Let It Be Said 139
2. The Foreclosed Event 144
3. The Eucharistic Hermeneutic 149
4. Whereof We Speak 153
5. The Delay to Interpretation 156
Hors- Texte
SIX
The Present and the Gift 161
1. One or the Other Idolatry 163
2. Consciousness and the Immediate 167
3. Metaphysical or Christic Temporality 169
4. The Memorial 172
5. Epektasis 173
6. From Day to Day 174
7. The Gift of Presence 176
8. The Urgency of Contemplation 178
SEVEN
The Last Rigor 183
1. Predication 183
2. Performance 186
3. Conversions 189
4. Martyrdom 195
EIGHT
Thomas Aquinas and Onto- theo- logy 199
1. The Construction of the Question 199
2. The Characteristics of Onto- theo- logy 202
3. The Object of Metaphysica 206
4. Esse Commune and the Analogy 210
5. Cause and Foundation 215
6. The Causa Sui 222
7. The Horizon and the Name of Being 225
8. Answer to the Question: Esse without Being 233
Notes 237
English- Language Editions Cited 281
Sources 285
Index 287