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Research paper thumbnail of Jean-Luc Marion sobre conocer y amar a la luz del apego a una falsedad Jean-Luc Marion on Knowing and Loving in Light of Attachment to Falsehood

Revista de Filosofía UCSC, 2024

¿Cómo entiende Jean-Luc Marion la relación entre conocer y amar, especialmente en el contexto his... more ¿Cómo entiende Jean-Luc Marion la relación entre conocer y amar, especialmente en el contexto histórico que él esboza a partir de la relación entre metafísica y la fenomenología de la donación? Este artículo sugiere que el fenómeno de aferrarse a sabiendas a una falsedad, especialmente como lo analiza San Agustín y lo desarrolla Marion, puede servir como camino para responder a dicha pregunta. La verdad ilumina de un modo que acusa a quien se aferra a una falsedad (veritas redarguens); en el contexto histórico de la metafísica, quien queda así expuesto por la luz es el yo “demiúrgico”, cuyas pretensiones trascendentales divinas incluyen intenciones eróticas tan fuertes como las que se encuentran en el pensamiento pre- y post-metafísico. El análisis del fenómeno del apego al error sugiere que la estructura de la confessio agustiniana es intrínseca a cualquier compromiso filosófico con la verdad.
How does Jean-Luc Marion understand the relationship between knowing and loving, especially in the historical context he outlines of the relationship between metaphysics and the phenomenology of givenness? is paper suggests that the phenomenon of knowingly clinging to a falsehood, especially as analyzed by St. Augustine and developed by Marion, can serve as a path toward answering the question. e truth illuminates in a manner that accuses one who clings to a falsehood (veritas redarguens); in the historical context of metaphysics, the one thus exposed by the light is the “demiurgic” ego, whose godlike transcendental pretentions include erotic intentions just as strong as those found in pre- and post-metaphysical thought. Analysis of the phenomenon of attachment to error suggests that the structure of Augustinian confessio is intrinsic to any philosophical engagement with the truth.

Research paper thumbnail of In the Footsteps of Henri de Lubac and Gregory of Nyssa: Jean-Yves Lacoste on Human Becoming, Historical and Eternal

Joeri Schrijvers and Martin Koci, ed. God and Phenomenology: Thinking With Jean-Yves Lacoste, 2023

Must we assume that a human being knows all there is to know about its being, its ends and its me... more Must we assume that a human being knows all there is to know about its being, its ends and its meaning, this side of death? Is it thinkable that the liturgical beyond overturns the stakes of its being? This paper explores Lacoste's work on de Lubac and connects it with Lacoste's liturgical eschatology and the notion of epektasis in Gregory of Nyssa. Lacoste's thought locates in historically situated human desire an aim beyond the world that intertwines the eschatological with the historical I.

Research paper thumbnail of From the Inner Room to Cardiognostic Narrative: Connecting the Two Ends of Chrétien's Genealogy of Interiority

Finitude's Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chrétien, ed. Philip John Paul Gonzales and Joseph Micah McMeans , 2023

Amidst the teachings Jesus delivers in the Gospel of Matthew following the Sermon on the Mount ar... more Amidst the teachings Jesus delivers in the Gospel of Matthew following the Sermon on the Mount are important instructions concerning prayer. Just before teaching the "Our Father," Jesus speaks of the "inner room" into which one must retreat in order to pray. According to Jean-Louis Chrétien's multi-volume genealogy of "figures of interiority, and the way in which interiority becomes 'subjectivity,'" this inner room is one of two key biblical starting points for tracing the development of how we think about consciousness in the West, the other being the biblical "heart" in its relation to St. Paul's "inner man." Here I focus on Chrétien's investigations of the "inner room" and other spatial topoi or schemas that Christian writers and thinkers have employed in order to figure consciousness as a space in which the human being communes intimately with God, and which later writers, both Christian and non-Christian, have overturned by vacating God, transforming this inner space of divine encounter into a profane space of solitude. I explain how Chrétien makes the surprising connection between the inner room described by Jesus and related inner spaces developed in its wake, on the one hand, and, on the other, the modern narrative techniques for portraying human consciousness employed by such master of the modern novel as Gustave Flaubert and Henry James.

Research paper thumbnail of The Poetics of the Symbolic Body in Chrétien's _Symbolique du corps_

Fragility and Transcendence: Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien, ed. Jeffrey Bloechl (Rowman & Littlefield), 2023

During the last fifteen years of his life, Jean-Louis Chrétien († 2019) pursued, across several b... more During the last fifteen years of his life, Jean-Louis Chrétien († 2019) pursued, across several books, an exploration of “personal identity” as figured in the works of numerous authors, primarily but not exclusively belonging to the Christian tradition. Through these books’ diverse approaches to human interiority, there runs a single guiding thread: a constant reference to the biblical notion of the heart and its relationship to human embodied speech. The book that begins this project is the 2005 study of the Christian interpretation of the Song of Songs, entitled Symbolique du corps. La tradition chrétienne du Cantique des Cantiques. My contribution here isolates and explicates a particularly fundamental aspect of the project: its poetics. While the subsequent books in Chrétien’s project explore the heights, the dissolution, and even the reversal of certain additional schemata of human interiority, the philosopher’s conviction nevertheless remains that the symbolic language of the body is available to speech and thought as a viable means for the construction of images of the inner life of the human being, and that this construction is not merely metaphorical but heuristic, changing the languages and concepts it engages. The commentators on the Song of Songs have irreversibly translated the biblical understanding of the human being, particularly as presented by the heart and the Pauline body of Christ, into the symbolic human body. And yet, if it is to be spoken accurately and fluently, this language of the symbolic body must be freely taken up anew, by each speaker. Chrétien’s genealogical investigation invitingly makes this case over and over again.

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL INCARNATION: A HISTORY THAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE FLESH AND THE EARTH

Communio: International Catholic Review, 2022

Emmanuel Falque writes, "For Péguy, ... it will be necessary to begin _from below_: from _my_ tim... more Emmanuel Falque writes, "For Péguy, ... it will be necessary to begin _from below_: from _my_ time and _my_ flesh, rather than from eternity and spirituality, the claimed experience of which cannot safeguard my humanity."

Research paper thumbnail of L'Incarnation selon Claudel comme inspiration philosophique chez Merleau-Ponty

Bulletin de la Société Paul Claudel, 2022

Malgré ses distances vis-à-vis le catholicisme, Maurice Merleau-Ponty estimait beaucoup l’œuvre d... more Malgré ses distances vis-à-vis le catholicisme, Maurice Merleau-Ponty estimait beaucoup l’œuvre de Paul Claudel. En prenant comme cible un passage caractéristique de la _Phénoménologie de la perception_ (1945) du philosophe, cet essai montre que son texte emprunte non seulement concepts et vocabulaire de la _Traité de la co-naissance au monde et de soi-même_ (1907) de Claudel, mais se trouve profondément inspiré par l’événement séminal du texte du poète : l’Incarnation de Dieu en Jésus-Christ.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the religiously ambiguous, brilliant phenomenologist, highly valued the work of the Catholic poet Paul Claudel. Focusing on an exemplary passage from the philosopher’s _Phénoménologie de la perception_ (1945), this essay demonstrates that Merleau-Ponty’s text borrows not only concepts and words from Claudel’s _Traité de la co-naissance au monde et de soi-même_ (1907), but is deeply impacted even by the event at the root of Claudel’s text: God’s Incarnation in Jesus Christ.

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: "Thinking in Franciscan, Part II." _Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture_. 22:1 (Winter 2019), 147-157.

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 2019

Second part of a conversation between Emmanuel Falque and Laure Solignac on Franciscan thought a... more Second part of a conversation between Emmanuel Falque and Laure Solignac on Franciscan thought and modes of being. The second part addresses includes a discussion of Scotus.

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: "Thinking in Franciscan, Part I," _Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture_, 21:4 (Fall 2018), 32-59.

Translation of a conversation between Emmanuel Falque and Laure Solignac on what it means to "thi... more Translation of a conversation between Emmanuel Falque and Laure Solignac on what it means to "think in Franciscan," which is less about determining what theses the Friars Minor positively defended and more about reaching back to the very dispositions and interior accents of the thought that has been grafted onto Franciscan life.

Research paper thumbnail of "Reading Textual Dramatics: Marion, Levinas, and the Interplay of Affection and Reason," in _Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion_, eds. Rachel Bath, Antonio Calcagno, Kathryn Lawson, and Steve G. Lofts. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 109-122.

A comparative focus on the experience of reading sample texts of Jean-Luc Marion (_The Erotic Phe... more A comparative focus on the experience of reading sample texts of Jean-Luc Marion (_The Erotic Phenomenon_) and Emmanuel Levinas ("God and Philosophy") suggests the importance of dramatic structures within philosophical texts for communicating fundamental relationships between affection and reason.

Research paper thumbnail of Mysterious Heart: Maritain, Mauriac, Chrétien and O'Connor on the Fictional Knowledge of Others

Chapter 3 in Mark Bosco, SJ, and Brent Little, eds. _Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Conno... more Chapter 3 in Mark Bosco, SJ, and Brent Little, eds. _Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Connor and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition_. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2017. 78-98. Discusses Flannery O'Connor's narrative approach to the possibility of a fictional knowledge of another person's heart by positioning her narrative ideas and practices within a debate (of which O'Connor was aware) carried out between François Mauriac and Jacques Maritain, and recently developed further by Jean-Louis Chrétien in his two volume _Conscience et roman_.

Research paper thumbnail of "Junípero Serra (1713-1784): Il padre delle missioni della California"

Chapter from the book: Mathieu S. Cesar and Pietro Rossotti, eds. _American Dream: In viaggio con... more Chapter from the book: Mathieu S. Cesar and Pietro Rossotti, eds. _American Dream: In viaggio con i santi americani_. Genova: Marietti, 2016. pp. 89-119.

Research paper thumbnail of "St. Junípero Serra: Founder of the California Missions, Vessel of Christ"

This is the unpublished English text of an essay on the Franciscan friar and saint Junípero Serra... more This is the unpublished English text of an essay on the Franciscan friar and saint Junípero Serra that was translated into Italian, edited, and published as "Junípero Serra (1713-1748): Il padre delle mission della California," trans. Donatella Brown and Irene Sorensen, in _American Dream: In viaggio con i santi americani_. Genoa, Italy: Marietti, 2016. 87-119.
The published Italian text is available above.

Research paper thumbnail of Claudel's Way to the Inexhaustible

A commentary on Paul Claudel's poem "Le Chemin de la croix," focused on how the poem conveys Clau... more A commentary on Paul Claudel's poem "Le Chemin de la croix," focused on how the poem conveys Claudel's sense of the inexhaustibility of the finite and definite. Accompanies John Marson Dunaway's translation of the poem in the "Reconsiderations" section of the Spring 2016 issue of _Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture_.

Research paper thumbnail of Paul Claudel, "The Way of the Cross," translated by John Marson Dunaway

Translation of Paul Claudel's poem "Le Chemin de la Croix," commented on in my short article "Cla... more Translation of Paul Claudel's poem "Le Chemin de la Croix," commented on in my short article "Claudel's Way to the Inexhaustible"--published in _Logos_ 19:2 (Spring 2016).

Research paper thumbnail of "A Fitting Receptacle: Paul Claudel on Poetry and Sensations of God"

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 17:4, Oct 2014

La parole signifie non seulement par les mots, mais encore par l'accent, le ton, les gestes et la... more La parole signifie non seulement par les mots, mais encore par l'accent, le ton, les gestes et la physionomie.

Research paper thumbnail of "Contestation and Epektasis in the 'Discussion on Sin'"

Analecta Hermeneutica 4 (2012), May 2013

Research paper thumbnail of "The Phenomenology of Givenness and the 'Myth of the Given'"

Discusses Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of givenness in relation to the treatment of 'the given... more Discusses Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of givenness in relation to the treatment of 'the given' in the philosophy of Wifrid Sellars and John McDowell.

Research paper thumbnail of "A Law Without Flesh: Reading Erotic Phenomena in _Le Très-Haut_"

Research paper thumbnail of The Lover's Capacity in Jean-Luc Marion's _The Erotic Phenomenon_

Research paper thumbnail of "Translator's Introduction" to Jean-Louis Chrétien, _Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art_

Research paper thumbnail of Jean-Luc Marion sobre conocer y amar a la luz del apego a una falsedad Jean-Luc Marion on Knowing and Loving in Light of Attachment to Falsehood

Revista de Filosofía UCSC, 2024

¿Cómo entiende Jean-Luc Marion la relación entre conocer y amar, especialmente en el contexto his... more ¿Cómo entiende Jean-Luc Marion la relación entre conocer y amar, especialmente en el contexto histórico que él esboza a partir de la relación entre metafísica y la fenomenología de la donación? Este artículo sugiere que el fenómeno de aferrarse a sabiendas a una falsedad, especialmente como lo analiza San Agustín y lo desarrolla Marion, puede servir como camino para responder a dicha pregunta. La verdad ilumina de un modo que acusa a quien se aferra a una falsedad (veritas redarguens); en el contexto histórico de la metafísica, quien queda así expuesto por la luz es el yo “demiúrgico”, cuyas pretensiones trascendentales divinas incluyen intenciones eróticas tan fuertes como las que se encuentran en el pensamiento pre- y post-metafísico. El análisis del fenómeno del apego al error sugiere que la estructura de la confessio agustiniana es intrínseca a cualquier compromiso filosófico con la verdad.
How does Jean-Luc Marion understand the relationship between knowing and loving, especially in the historical context he outlines of the relationship between metaphysics and the phenomenology of givenness? is paper suggests that the phenomenon of knowingly clinging to a falsehood, especially as analyzed by St. Augustine and developed by Marion, can serve as a path toward answering the question. e truth illuminates in a manner that accuses one who clings to a falsehood (veritas redarguens); in the historical context of metaphysics, the one thus exposed by the light is the “demiurgic” ego, whose godlike transcendental pretentions include erotic intentions just as strong as those found in pre- and post-metaphysical thought. Analysis of the phenomenon of attachment to error suggests that the structure of Augustinian confessio is intrinsic to any philosophical engagement with the truth.

Research paper thumbnail of In the Footsteps of Henri de Lubac and Gregory of Nyssa: Jean-Yves Lacoste on Human Becoming, Historical and Eternal

Joeri Schrijvers and Martin Koci, ed. God and Phenomenology: Thinking With Jean-Yves Lacoste, 2023

Must we assume that a human being knows all there is to know about its being, its ends and its me... more Must we assume that a human being knows all there is to know about its being, its ends and its meaning, this side of death? Is it thinkable that the liturgical beyond overturns the stakes of its being? This paper explores Lacoste's work on de Lubac and connects it with Lacoste's liturgical eschatology and the notion of epektasis in Gregory of Nyssa. Lacoste's thought locates in historically situated human desire an aim beyond the world that intertwines the eschatological with the historical I.

Research paper thumbnail of From the Inner Room to Cardiognostic Narrative: Connecting the Two Ends of Chrétien's Genealogy of Interiority

Finitude's Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chrétien, ed. Philip John Paul Gonzales and Joseph Micah McMeans , 2023

Amidst the teachings Jesus delivers in the Gospel of Matthew following the Sermon on the Mount ar... more Amidst the teachings Jesus delivers in the Gospel of Matthew following the Sermon on the Mount are important instructions concerning prayer. Just before teaching the "Our Father," Jesus speaks of the "inner room" into which one must retreat in order to pray. According to Jean-Louis Chrétien's multi-volume genealogy of "figures of interiority, and the way in which interiority becomes 'subjectivity,'" this inner room is one of two key biblical starting points for tracing the development of how we think about consciousness in the West, the other being the biblical "heart" in its relation to St. Paul's "inner man." Here I focus on Chrétien's investigations of the "inner room" and other spatial topoi or schemas that Christian writers and thinkers have employed in order to figure consciousness as a space in which the human being communes intimately with God, and which later writers, both Christian and non-Christian, have overturned by vacating God, transforming this inner space of divine encounter into a profane space of solitude. I explain how Chrétien makes the surprising connection between the inner room described by Jesus and related inner spaces developed in its wake, on the one hand, and, on the other, the modern narrative techniques for portraying human consciousness employed by such master of the modern novel as Gustave Flaubert and Henry James.

Research paper thumbnail of The Poetics of the Symbolic Body in Chrétien's _Symbolique du corps_

Fragility and Transcendence: Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien, ed. Jeffrey Bloechl (Rowman & Littlefield), 2023

During the last fifteen years of his life, Jean-Louis Chrétien († 2019) pursued, across several b... more During the last fifteen years of his life, Jean-Louis Chrétien († 2019) pursued, across several books, an exploration of “personal identity” as figured in the works of numerous authors, primarily but not exclusively belonging to the Christian tradition. Through these books’ diverse approaches to human interiority, there runs a single guiding thread: a constant reference to the biblical notion of the heart and its relationship to human embodied speech. The book that begins this project is the 2005 study of the Christian interpretation of the Song of Songs, entitled Symbolique du corps. La tradition chrétienne du Cantique des Cantiques. My contribution here isolates and explicates a particularly fundamental aspect of the project: its poetics. While the subsequent books in Chrétien’s project explore the heights, the dissolution, and even the reversal of certain additional schemata of human interiority, the philosopher’s conviction nevertheless remains that the symbolic language of the body is available to speech and thought as a viable means for the construction of images of the inner life of the human being, and that this construction is not merely metaphorical but heuristic, changing the languages and concepts it engages. The commentators on the Song of Songs have irreversibly translated the biblical understanding of the human being, particularly as presented by the heart and the Pauline body of Christ, into the symbolic human body. And yet, if it is to be spoken accurately and fluently, this language of the symbolic body must be freely taken up anew, by each speaker. Chrétien’s genealogical investigation invitingly makes this case over and over again.

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL INCARNATION: A HISTORY THAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE FLESH AND THE EARTH

Communio: International Catholic Review, 2022

Emmanuel Falque writes, "For Péguy, ... it will be necessary to begin _from below_: from _my_ tim... more Emmanuel Falque writes, "For Péguy, ... it will be necessary to begin _from below_: from _my_ time and _my_ flesh, rather than from eternity and spirituality, the claimed experience of which cannot safeguard my humanity."

Research paper thumbnail of L'Incarnation selon Claudel comme inspiration philosophique chez Merleau-Ponty

Bulletin de la Société Paul Claudel, 2022

Malgré ses distances vis-à-vis le catholicisme, Maurice Merleau-Ponty estimait beaucoup l’œuvre d... more Malgré ses distances vis-à-vis le catholicisme, Maurice Merleau-Ponty estimait beaucoup l’œuvre de Paul Claudel. En prenant comme cible un passage caractéristique de la _Phénoménologie de la perception_ (1945) du philosophe, cet essai montre que son texte emprunte non seulement concepts et vocabulaire de la _Traité de la co-naissance au monde et de soi-même_ (1907) de Claudel, mais se trouve profondément inspiré par l’événement séminal du texte du poète : l’Incarnation de Dieu en Jésus-Christ.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the religiously ambiguous, brilliant phenomenologist, highly valued the work of the Catholic poet Paul Claudel. Focusing on an exemplary passage from the philosopher’s _Phénoménologie de la perception_ (1945), this essay demonstrates that Merleau-Ponty’s text borrows not only concepts and words from Claudel’s _Traité de la co-naissance au monde et de soi-même_ (1907), but is deeply impacted even by the event at the root of Claudel’s text: God’s Incarnation in Jesus Christ.

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: "Thinking in Franciscan, Part II." _Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture_. 22:1 (Winter 2019), 147-157.

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 2019

Second part of a conversation between Emmanuel Falque and Laure Solignac on Franciscan thought a... more Second part of a conversation between Emmanuel Falque and Laure Solignac on Franciscan thought and modes of being. The second part addresses includes a discussion of Scotus.

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: "Thinking in Franciscan, Part I," _Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture_, 21:4 (Fall 2018), 32-59.

Translation of a conversation between Emmanuel Falque and Laure Solignac on what it means to "thi... more Translation of a conversation between Emmanuel Falque and Laure Solignac on what it means to "think in Franciscan," which is less about determining what theses the Friars Minor positively defended and more about reaching back to the very dispositions and interior accents of the thought that has been grafted onto Franciscan life.

Research paper thumbnail of "Reading Textual Dramatics: Marion, Levinas, and the Interplay of Affection and Reason," in _Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion_, eds. Rachel Bath, Antonio Calcagno, Kathryn Lawson, and Steve G. Lofts. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 109-122.

A comparative focus on the experience of reading sample texts of Jean-Luc Marion (_The Erotic Phe... more A comparative focus on the experience of reading sample texts of Jean-Luc Marion (_The Erotic Phenomenon_) and Emmanuel Levinas ("God and Philosophy") suggests the importance of dramatic structures within philosophical texts for communicating fundamental relationships between affection and reason.

Research paper thumbnail of Mysterious Heart: Maritain, Mauriac, Chrétien and O'Connor on the Fictional Knowledge of Others

Chapter 3 in Mark Bosco, SJ, and Brent Little, eds. _Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Conno... more Chapter 3 in Mark Bosco, SJ, and Brent Little, eds. _Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Connor and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition_. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2017. 78-98. Discusses Flannery O'Connor's narrative approach to the possibility of a fictional knowledge of another person's heart by positioning her narrative ideas and practices within a debate (of which O'Connor was aware) carried out between François Mauriac and Jacques Maritain, and recently developed further by Jean-Louis Chrétien in his two volume _Conscience et roman_.

Research paper thumbnail of "Junípero Serra (1713-1784): Il padre delle missioni della California"

Chapter from the book: Mathieu S. Cesar and Pietro Rossotti, eds. _American Dream: In viaggio con... more Chapter from the book: Mathieu S. Cesar and Pietro Rossotti, eds. _American Dream: In viaggio con i santi americani_. Genova: Marietti, 2016. pp. 89-119.

Research paper thumbnail of "St. Junípero Serra: Founder of the California Missions, Vessel of Christ"

This is the unpublished English text of an essay on the Franciscan friar and saint Junípero Serra... more This is the unpublished English text of an essay on the Franciscan friar and saint Junípero Serra that was translated into Italian, edited, and published as "Junípero Serra (1713-1748): Il padre delle mission della California," trans. Donatella Brown and Irene Sorensen, in _American Dream: In viaggio con i santi americani_. Genoa, Italy: Marietti, 2016. 87-119.
The published Italian text is available above.

Research paper thumbnail of Claudel's Way to the Inexhaustible

A commentary on Paul Claudel's poem "Le Chemin de la croix," focused on how the poem conveys Clau... more A commentary on Paul Claudel's poem "Le Chemin de la croix," focused on how the poem conveys Claudel's sense of the inexhaustibility of the finite and definite. Accompanies John Marson Dunaway's translation of the poem in the "Reconsiderations" section of the Spring 2016 issue of _Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture_.

Research paper thumbnail of Paul Claudel, "The Way of the Cross," translated by John Marson Dunaway

Translation of Paul Claudel's poem "Le Chemin de la Croix," commented on in my short article "Cla... more Translation of Paul Claudel's poem "Le Chemin de la Croix," commented on in my short article "Claudel's Way to the Inexhaustible"--published in _Logos_ 19:2 (Spring 2016).

Research paper thumbnail of "A Fitting Receptacle: Paul Claudel on Poetry and Sensations of God"

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 17:4, Oct 2014

La parole signifie non seulement par les mots, mais encore par l'accent, le ton, les gestes et la... more La parole signifie non seulement par les mots, mais encore par l'accent, le ton, les gestes et la physionomie.

Research paper thumbnail of "Contestation and Epektasis in the 'Discussion on Sin'"

Analecta Hermeneutica 4 (2012), May 2013

Research paper thumbnail of "The Phenomenology of Givenness and the 'Myth of the Given'"

Discusses Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of givenness in relation to the treatment of 'the given... more Discusses Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of givenness in relation to the treatment of 'the given' in the philosophy of Wifrid Sellars and John McDowell.

Research paper thumbnail of "A Law Without Flesh: Reading Erotic Phenomena in _Le Très-Haut_"

Research paper thumbnail of The Lover's Capacity in Jean-Luc Marion's _The Erotic Phenomenon_

Research paper thumbnail of "Translator's Introduction" to Jean-Louis Chrétien, _Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art_

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: Jean-Luc Marion, Cartesian Questions III: Descartes Beneath the Mask of Cartesianism

The interpretation of a philosopher’s thought arises from the relation between its texts and the ... more The interpretation of a philosopher’s thought arises from the relation between its texts and the prejudices of its readers. This is especially true of the thought of René Descartes: everyone seems to have an account of what his thought means, regardless of what the texts may say. Cartesian Questions III: Descartes Beneath the Mask of Cartesianism shows how certain of Descartes’ most decisive points remain masked by the various “Cartesianisms” that historiography and convenient simplifications alike have constructed. The book’s first half shows how Descartes lines up against Cartesianism. It sets forth several closely argued attempts to free up the positive status of skepticism in the Cartesian corpus, the non-substantial (and non-reflexive) character of the ego cogito, the complex elaboration of the idea of the infinite, and the role of esteem as a mode of the cogitatio. There then follows a second set of studies, seeking to reconstitute some of the ways in which Cartesianism (and non-Cartesianism) opposed itself to Descartes. These begin before Descartes, with Montaigne, who took a different direction than the one Descartes would take with his statement ego sum, ego existo; Hobbes is addressed next, as the contemporary who in front of Descartes refused his example; and the final studies focus on Spinoza, who followed Descartes by closing up the many philosophical openings he had created. Arising at the pivot point between these two paths of inquiry is a chapter dedicated to Descartes and phenomenology, with particular focus on how Descartes can be understood to have practiced, in his own way and by anticipation, a genuine phenomenological reduction. The complete set of inquiries composing this book, the third in Jean-Luc Marion’s masterful series of Cartesian Questions, demonstrates that, rather than belonging strictly to the past, Descartes continues to speak to and open up our future.

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: Jean-Luc Marion, Revelation Comes from Elsewhere

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35771

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: Michael Edwards, The Bible and Poetry

The Bible and Poetry, 2023

In The Bible and Poetry, the poet and scholar Michael Edwards seeks to transform how the Bible an... more In The Bible and Poetry, the poet and scholar Michael Edwards seeks to transform how the Bible and Christianity are understood, arguing that poetry is not an ornamental or accidental feature of the Bible but is central to its meaning. The creative use of words that is poetry is the necessary medium of the Creator’s word, and belief emerges not from precepts and propositions but out of the lived experience—this is what the Bible offers above of all—of the power of that word.
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Research paper thumbnail of Translation: Jean-Luc Marion, A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment

University of Chicago Press, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Translation: Jean-Luc Marion, _Givenness & Revelation_

A translation of Jean-Luc Marion's 2014 Gifford Lectures

Research paper thumbnail of Trans.: Jean-Luc Marion, _Negative Certainties_

Research paper thumbnail of Trans.: Claude Romano, _Event and Time_

Research paper thumbnail of Trans. and Introduction: Jean-Luc Marion, _The Reason of the Gift_

Research paper thumbnail of Trans.: Jean-Luc Marion, _The Erotic Phenomenon_

Research paper thumbnail of Trans. and Introduction: Jean-Louis Chrétien, _Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art_

Research paper thumbnail of Trans.: Jean-Luc Marion, _Prolegomena to Charity_

Research paper thumbnail of "Religions" Special Issue. The Bible in Literature: New Approaches to Literary Engagement with the Bible

Religions, 2022

This special issue of Religions seeks to present outstanding examples of recent developments in t... more This special issue of Religions seeks to present outstanding examples of recent developments in the study of the Bible in literature. Literary scholars today find themselves equipped with an array of significant approaches to and methods for studying literary engagements with the Bible. A generation of scholars—among them, Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, Harold Bloom, Robert Alter—has produced books of major importance that, amidst years of debate, some of it ongoing, have set out typological, narratological, formal, translation, and cultural questions that can be said to constitute the parameters of the field of “the Bible and literature.” At least in the English-speaking world, many earlier difficulties in conceiving the range of relationships between literature and the Bible have been addressed. Overlapping with this development have been ground-breaking philosophical approaches to the Bible that promise or have already realized consequences for the study of literary engagement with the Bible: the phenomenological work of Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricœur, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and Kevin Hart; or the semiotic and Thomistic thought of Olivier-Thomas Venard, OP. And then there are the contributions of poets, fictions writers, and dramatists, some of whom are also scholars of literature, the Bible, or both (among poets, one might think of Paul Claudel, T.S. Eliot, Jean Grosjean, Czesław Miłosz, Denise Levertov, Michael Edwards). And these lists are in no way meant to exclude the many articles and books produced by scholars working on a wide range of authors and periods in order to investigate endless literary appropriations of the Bible. In particular, the so-called “religious turn” of the last two decades in scholarship devoted to various authors and literary periods has produced important studies addressing our topic.

Research paper thumbnail of Philosopher d'une manière « mariale » : Alentour du verset : Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon

Crossing: The INPR Journal, 2021

A review-essay on Marie-Aimée Manchon's book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des mystè... more A review-essay on Marie-Aimée Manchon's book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des mystères_.
Manchon's response is available in _Crossing: The INPR Journal_, vol. II (Dec. 2021) at https://inprjournal.pubpub.org

Research paper thumbnail of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (review)

Modernism/modernity, Jan 1, 2001

The success of Peter Connor's Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin derives in no small part ... more The success of Peter Connor's Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin derives in no small part from his awareness that anyone choosing to write about Bataille in English has a special responsibility to come to grips with "the arbitrariness of […] cultural chronology" that has been ...

Research paper thumbnail of Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity (review)

Modernism/modernity, Jan 1, 1998

Since the late 1980s, much scholarship concerned with Samuel Beckett's relationship with... more Since the late 1980s, much scholarship concerned with Samuel Beckett's relationship with philosophy has argued that postmodern or post-structuralist theory, rather than existentialist philosophy, is the proper context for understanding Beckett's work, particularly his trilogy of [End Page ...

Research paper thumbnail of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (review)

Modernism/modernity, Jan 1, 1999

The central claim in Giorgio Agamben's latest book to be translated into English (the It... more The central claim in Giorgio Agamben's latest book to be translated into English (the Italian original was published in 1995) is extremely provocative: the concentration camp is the hidden paradigm for the exercise of power in western politics, including contemporary liberal democracies. ...