Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion

by Eoin Cassidy

Book Overview

After the subject" and beyond Heideggerian ontology, Marion suggests, there is the sheer givenness of phenomena without condition. In theology, this liberation means rethinking God in terms of phenomena such as love, gift, and excess. In addition to an important essay by Marion, "The Reason of the Gift," and a dialogue between Marion and Richard Kearney, this book contains stimulating essays by ten other contributors: Lilian Alweiss, Eoin Cassidy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823224503
• ISBN13: 9780823224500
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"