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God in Recent French Phenomenology

J. Aaron Simmons

Philosophy Compass, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 910–932 (2008)

DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00171.x

Abstract

Abstract In this essay, I provide an introduction to the so‐called ‘theological turn’ in recent French, ‘new’ phenomenology. I begin by articulating the stakes of excluding God from phenomenology (as advocated by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger) and then move on to a brief consideration of why Dominique Janicaud contends that, by inquiring into the ‘inapparent’, new phenomenology is no longer phenomenological. I then consider the general trajectories of this recent movement and argue that there are five main themes that unite the work of such varied thinkers as Levinas, Derrida, Marion, Henry, Chrétien, Lacoste, and Ricœur. I conclude by outlining points of overlap between new phenomenology and contemporary analytic philosophy of religion and suggest that the two stand as important resources for each other.

Topics

Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism 1.00 Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity 1.00 Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 0.98

Field: Arts and Humanities · Subfield: Philosophy

Keywords

Phenomenology (philosophy),Philosophy,Epistemology,Psychoanalysis,Psychology

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