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Philosophy Phenomenology

A Genealogy of Marion's Philosophy of Religion

Apparent Darkness

by (author) Tamsin Jones Farmer

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2011
Category
Phenomenology, Religious
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780253355942
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $92.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780253222862
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $33.00

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Tamsin Jones believes that locating Jean-Luc Marion solely within theological or phenomenological discourse undermines the coherence of his intellectual and philosophical enterprise. Through a comparative examination of Marion's interpretation and use of Dionysius the Areopagite and Gregory of Nyssa, Jones evaluates the interplay of the manifestation and hiddenness of phenomena. By placing Marion against the backdrop of these Greek fathers, Jones sharpens the tension between Marion's rigorous method and its intended purpose: a safeguard against idolatry. At once situated at the crossroads of the debate over the turn to religion in French phenomenology and an inquiry into the retrieval of early Christian writings within this discourse, A Genealogy of Marion's Philosophy of Religion opens up a new view of the phenomenology of religious experience.

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Contributor Notes

Tamsin Jones is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Religion for the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University.

Editorial Reviews

Jones has written an informative and provocative book.

International Philosophical Quarterly

[A]n informative and provocative book . . . .

International Philosophical Quarterly

Jones's excellent work . . . should be on the wish-list of anyone interested in Jean-Luc Marion and contemporary continental philosophy and theology more broadly.

Modern Theology

Jones has here offered an excellent analysis of the patristic genealogy of Marion's phenomenology: clear, precise and richly documented in its accounts of Marion's thought, as well as astute and balanced in its critical appraisals. If only more philosophers – both analytic and Continental – could write this way.

The Heythrop Journal