The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur

Adam J. Graves

The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
15 September 2021
Pages
256
ISBN
9781793640574

The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur

Adam J. Graves

The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur provides a critical framework for understanding the phenomenology of revelation through a series of close readings that serve as the basis for an imagined dialogue between Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. Adam J. Graves distinguishes between two dominant approaches to revelation: a radical approach that seeks to disclose a pre-linguistic experience of revelation through a radicalization of the phenomenological reduction, and a hermeneutical one that characterizes revelation as an eruption of meaning arising from our encounter with concrete symbols, narratives, and texts. According to Graves, the radical approach is often driven by a misplaced concern for maintaining philosophical rigor and for avoiding theological biases, or contaminations. This preoccupation leads to a process of counter-contamination in which the concept of revelation is ultimately estranged from the phenomenon’s rich historical and linguistic content. While Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology may do a better job of accommodating the concrete content of revelation, it does so at the price of having to renouncing the kind of presuppositionlessness generally associated with phenomenological method. Ultimately, Graves argues that a more nuanced appreciation of the complex nature of our linguistic inheritance enables us to reconceive the relationship between revelation and philosophical thought.

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