Givenness & Hermeneutics

by Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (Translator)

The 2013 Père Marquette Lecture in Theology. Printed side-by-side in French and English.

63 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Jean-Luc Marion est un philosophe et universitaire français.

Jean-Luc Marion is a French philosopher and academic.

Reviews

[Tommy Graves · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this short lecture (roughly 25 small pages), Marion takes on what seems to be an obvious critique of his phenomenology: if "givenness" or even "pure givenness" is primary in phenomenology, then there can be no room for hermeneutics. Indeed, hermeneutics is set against givenness. Marion's response is nuanced and, for some, shocking: givenness does not mean that objects give themselves, but rather givenness is the condition of the possibility of hermeneutics and vice-versa. Givenness serves as the call to which hermeneutics responds - thus givenness is the initial plane on which hermeneutics can give meaning (from an already-experienced past out toward an as-yet undetermined future). Neither can exist without the other. Marion's analysis is penetrating and brilliantly solves this apparent difficulty for phenomenology, in turn perhaps bringing Husserl closer to Heidegger.

[Joaco Perez]

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[Gab Nug · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read due to a tangential relevance to my graduate thesis.

This work is the written form of a lecture Marion had given as part of the Pere Marquette Lectures in Theology. What's really neat about this copy is that it is side-by-side english and french. It concerns the relation between Marion's phenomenology of givenness and the field of hermeneutics. It was a good, short read, tbh.