Theology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Marion
Keyword(s):  
Death Of God ◽  
Theological Turn ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
The Erotic

This chapter explains the distinction between the notion of the idol and that of the icon. It evaluates the significance and meaning of the “death of God,” as announced by Nietzsche. Marion shows how and why God is beyond being and highlights the importance of the language of love. He provides a philosophical account of the erotic relation and the flesh. He also responds to the accusation of the theological turn and explains the context of this debate.

From Idolatry to Revelation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-226
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Marion ◽  
M.E. Littlejohn ◽  
Stephanie Rumpza
Keyword(s):  
Reception History ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Theological Turn ◽  
History Of

Abstract In this interview, Jean-Luc Marion recalls the intellectual world of Paris in 1970s, reflecting on how his engagement with the ubiquitous “death of God” question led to the sketches of God without Being first presented at this 1979 Colloquium, and discusses the criticism it provoked not only from Heideggerians but also from Thomists. He discusses the reception history of phenomenology in France the reasons for the particular power it gained among thinkers of his generation. Finally, he recounts how his work has led from the 1979 Colloquium through the “Theological Turn” and up to his forthcoming D’ ailleurs, la révélation (Grasset, 2020), which he briefly previews here. Marion closes with words on originality, criticism, and the particular challenges of the contemporary world that await philosophical thinking today.

The Comprehension of the Erotic Phenomenon

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Young chang Son
Keyword(s):  
The Erotic

Rewriting the Perverse: Rachilde and the Erotic Body

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Thompson
Keyword(s):  
The Erotic

The Erotic and the Pornographic in Chicana Rap

Meridians ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Beauty Bragg ◽  
Pancho McFarland
Keyword(s):  
The Erotic

Homer in Love

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Weiden Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Central Theme ◽  
Ars Amatoria ◽  
Homeric Reception ◽  
The Erotic

Chapter 7 considers a second central theme in Ovid’s Homeric reception, desire, and its evocation through repetition. The erotic tradition of Homeric reception that Ovid inherited can be seen in the longest extant fragment of the elegiac poem Leontion, in which the Hellenistic poet Hermesianax offers a catalogue of ancient poets and the women they loved. In Tristia 1.6, Ovid expands upon the central trope of this catalogue, in which poetry is personified as the beloved object of a poet’s desire. The love-poet, suggests Ovid, strives continually to renew his love by recreating the great loves of past poetry, aspiring always to surpass them. Discussions of Ovid’s treatment of Penelope in Heroides 1, Calypso in Ars amatoria Book 2, and Circe in the Remedia amoris explore Ovid’s continuing interest in figuring himself as a second Homer by imagining Homer as an elegiac poet.

I Know

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wierzbicka
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Independent Source ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
The World ◽  
Culture Independent ◽  
Analytical Research

This chapter argues that a philosophical account of human epistemology needs to be complemented by a linguistic one, informed by analytical and empirical experience of cross-linguistic semantics. The author outlines such a complementary account, based on many decades of empirical and analytical research undertaken within the NSM (Natural Semantic Metalanguage) approach. The main conclusion is that KNOW is an indefinable and universal human concept, and that there are four “canonical” frames in which this concept occurs across languages, the most basic one being the “dialogical” frame: “I know,” “I don’t know.” The author contends that both the questions and the answers concerning the “epistemology for the rest of the world” need to be anchored in some conceptual givens, derived neither from historically shaped Anglo English, nor from the European philosophical tradition, but from a more reliable, language- and culture-independent source; and the author shows how this can be done.

Death of God, Death of Love

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Kirkpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Death Of God ◽  
Christian Doctrine

Part IV (Chapters 8 and 9) constructively argues that Sartre is a useful resource for contemporary hamartiology. Chapter 8 argues (i) that Sartre’s account of love provides further evidence of the Jansenist inflection of his pessimism. On this basis, it makes the case that (ii) Being and Nothingness presents a ‘hermeneutics of despair’ (to adapt Ricoeur’s phrase). It then asks (iii) whether—and if so, how—this reading of Sartre might usefully inform contemporary hamartiology, arguing that some theological categories (such as sin and love) cannot be known merely conceptually, but must be acknowledged personally. Finally (iv) it presents the ‘original optimism’ of the Christian doctrine of sin, which is lacking in the situation Sartre describes. In both the Augustinian and Kierkegaardian accounts of Christianity, an important component of this original optimism is love.

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