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In this essay I explore some of the theological consequences of Jean-Luc Marions antimetaphysical philosophy of religion. Inspired by Heidegger and Nietzsche Marion works from the definition of metaphysics as "onto-theology". This means that the western metaphysical tradition from at least Fransisco Suarez made the fundamental mistake of conflating the being of God with the beingness of created beings. This was done in an attempt to give an all-encompassing general description of the world in one universal science. In this science God as Causa Sui (the self caused cause), functions as the first efficient cause of the world. The result from this thinking was according to Marion that God became limited to the conditions of the study of Being. God became knowable as a being. In this process the worry is that theologians lost a sense of wonder for the divine and God became more of a necessary piece in the rational universe. According to Marion this "God of the philosophers and savants" can no longer be the revealed God that judaism and christianity has confessed to but an idol created in the image of man. Therefore, Marion goes on the search for the “God beyond Being”, the God who is infinitely different and other than his creation. One can describe Marions project as exercises in apophatic or “negative” theology with the tools of phenomenology. All of which aims at describing something at the center of faith that he believes it is impossible to completely describe, and that the attempt to do so will not get you closer to what you are looking for but actually further away. For him metaphysics represents the hubris of conforming everything, and thus also God, to the conditions of man. And this can only make idols in mans own image, never reach the divine. How then does God show himself? This is answered by Marion with his description of “saturated phenomena”. Phenomenologically speaking everything that shows itself gives itself. Man is not the starting point nor the condition of possibility of what can show itself. God can thus give himself completely, without limit, and man experiences God without fully being able to make sense of the encounter. This encounter is the saturated phenomenon par excellence. Theologically speaking Marion pinpoints the encounter with God in what for him is the very center of the christian revelation namely the celebration of the eucharist which he describes as the hermeneutics of the eternal Word by itself. The theological/phenomenological vision of Marion has been wildly debated. In this essay I explore some critical responses to Marion from the english speaking world with a focus on his theological thinking. To do this I chose to present the main critical points made in respons to Marion by John Milbank, Graham Ward, Bruce Ellis Benson and James K.A. Smith. This critique is then discussed under three headings “embodiment”, “the divinity of Christ” and “knowledge of God”. In my judgment some of the critical points raised loose their force as they ignore the definitions Marion explicitly lays out and read too much into his discussions of the role of metaphysics in theological discourse. I also try to show that some of the critique becomes strange when one places Marion in the context of a self professed Roman Catholic whose theology reasonably should be seen as a contribution to (at least) that living tradition. Other times it is hard to asses Marions thought and the critique as you can choose what types of descriptions to emphasise and what to downplay. This is especially an issue with respect to what Marion calls the icon and its functions. Some of the critical points do seem valid to me and pose serious questions to Marions project as a whole, especially the way Marion wants to place knowledge of the divine in a separate category than other knowledge and the consequences this has for our ability to know and speak about God. In most Christian epistemology the inability for humans to know God is simultaneously because God is other than us and also because of sin, but this distinction is seemingly lost in Marions thought. Another difficulty is how to describe Jesus Christ as the incarnation of “God beyond being”. The tendency of Marion is to emphasise the hidden presence of God in Christ in such a strongly kenotic language that his theology runs the risk of falling into docetism.

Thesis advisor: Andrew L. Prevot / Thesis advisor: André Brouillette / The philosopher Jean-Luc Marion presents a phenomenological approach to the Trinity. He criticizes traditional trinitarian theology based on metaphysics in that it fails to resolve the intrinsic contradiction between the unicity of the one God and the plurality of the persons of the Trinity. He proposes, rather, 'trinitarian revelation'; in this, Jesus Christ, the par excellence revelation, unveils the Father, while the Holy Spirit guides the beholder to see the icon of the Son from the proper perspective. This anamorphosis model overcomes the limitations of the metaphysical theology of the Trinity; it stresses that the beholder sees the sole visibility of the Son and appreciates the communion of plurality in charity within the mutual relationships of the persons of the Trinity. One of the outstanding points of Marion's phenomenological approach to trinitarian revelation, moreover, is that the viewer is involved in triune God's unveiling. Believers can experience 'trinitarian revelation' through praying personally and participating in the sacraments of the Church. In this conversation of the perspective, they receive the gifts of sacrifice, forgiveness, and communion as the manifestation of the communion of charity among the persons of the Trinity. Paradoxically, as with the communion within the Trinity, these gifts are not directed inwardly to the individual believer, but they are gifts to be given out to others. This is how God reveals himself in Marion's trinitarian mode and how we participate in that revelation of triune God. / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Na bibliografia brasileira, Jean-Luc Godard aparece com destaque em pesquisas sobre o cinema brasileiro moderno e sobre a história da censura cinematográfica no país. O realizador franco-suíço é descrito como uma referência fundamental para alguns cineastas brasileiros modernos, como um norteador dos debates travados em nossa crítica e como um objeto de atenção especial por parte dos censores da ditadura militar. Partindo desse lugar privilegiado conferido a Godard, esta pesquisa investigou historicamente a recepção e a interdição dos filmes do cineasta no Brasil no período entre 1961 e 1970. Em um primeiro momento (capítulos 1 a 3), analisamos os debates estéticos e políticos suscitados na crítica pelos filmes de Godard em três jornais de grande veiculação do período (Correio da manhã, Jornal do Brasil e O Estado de S. Paulo); em seguida (capítulo 4), identificamos as apropriações que os críticos-cineastas Glauber Rocha e Rogério Sganzerla realizaram da obra godardiana em seus escritos; e, por fim (capítulo 5), abordamos a documentação censória relativa aos filmes do realizador. Dessa maneira, constatamos o importante papel que Godard desempenhou na conformação do cinema brasileiro moderno, bem como o impacto que sua obra exerceu, cultural e politicamente, no país. Conforme evidenciaremos, naquele momento havia uma conjuntura sociocultural modernista, de esquerda e jovem que favoreceu a recepção do cineasta no Brasil. Ao mesmo tempo em que foi lida à luz de tal conjuntura, a obra godardiana atuou enquanto seu catalisador, estimulando novos projetos e debates em seu interior. O cineasta foi instrumentalizado por projetos de vanguarda no cinema e em ouras artes, estimulou a politização de esquerda e dialogou com os anseios de uma cultura jovem e libertária em expansão. Paralelamente, confirmamos a atenção especial que Godard recebeu dos censores da ditadura militar brasileira. Afinal, a ditadura se opunha a tal conjuntura e, por isso, viu no cineasta um perigo a ser combatido, uma vez que seus filmes atentavam contra os dois pilares básicos da ideologia que norteava o regime, o anticomunismo e a moral conservadora. Conforme demonstraremos, tal atenção especial se deu sobretudo nos anos 1970, mas teve suas raízes em 1968, quando duas películas de Godard foram interditadas e uma imagem extremamente negativa do realizador foi consolidada no órgão censório. / In the Brazilian literature, Jean-Luc Godard appears prominently in researches on modern Brazilian cinema and on the history of cinematographic censorship in the country. The Franco-Swiss director is described as a fundamental reference for some modern Brazilian filmmakers; as a guiding force on the debates held within our critique; and as an object of special attention by the censors of the military dictatorship. From this privileged place conferred to Godard, this research historically investigated the reception and interdiction of his films, in Brazil, between 1961 and 1970. First (Chapters 1 to 3), we analyze the aesthetic and political debates raised in criticism of Godard\'s films in three major newspapers of the given period (Correio da manhã, Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S. Paulo). Then (Chapter 4), we identify the appropriations of the Godardian word made by the critical-filmmakers Glauber Rocha and Rogério Sganzerla. Finally (Chapter 5), we approach the censorship documentation relating to the director\'s films. Our findings showed the important role Godard played in the conformation of modern Brazilian cinema, as well as the impact that his work exerted, culturally and politically, in the country. As we will show, the socio-cultural context of the time modernist, leftist and youthful favored the filmmakers reception in Brazil. At the same time as it was read in the light of such a conjuncture, Godard\'s work acted as a catalyst for it, stimulating new projects and debates within. The filmmaker was instrumented by avant-garde projects in the cinema and in other arts, and then stimulated the politicization of the left and dialogued with the yearnings of a young and libertarian culture in expansion. We also found evidence of the special attention that Godard received from the censors of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Opposed to the referred conjuncture, the dictatorship saw in the filmmaker a danger to be fought, since his films were against the two basic pillars of the regime: anticommunism and conservative morality. As we will show, he received such special attention mainly in the 1970s, but it had its roots in 1968 when two of Godard\'s films were banned and an extremely negative image of the filmmaker was consolidated by the censorship.

A repetição, diria David Hume, nada muda no objeto que se repete em si, mas altera algo no espírito que o contempla: ela desencadeia uma diferença de percepção naquele que observa. Os textos do dramaturgo francês Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) são marcados pelo retorno sistemático de palavras, frases, expressões, personagens e temas, a ponto de a crítica recente que se articula em torno dele ver nessa característica uma espécie de ethos lagarciano. A análise pormenorizada de dois textos do autor Carthage, encore (escrito no início de sua carreira) e Jétais dans ma maison et j\'attendais que la pluie vienne (no fim de sua vida) revela um aspecto interessante: neles a repetição parece funcionar como uma agulha, tecendo a obra, desencadeando uma outra percepção da temporalidade na qual passado, presente e futuro vão gradativamente diluindo-se, condensando-se: suspende-se a apreensão da passagem do tempo e, simultaneamente, abre-se uma brecha na eternidade. O presente trabalho propõe-se a entender o uso da repetição nestes dois textos percebendo-a como um elemento performativo (de acordo com os trabalhos sobre teatro performativo realizados por Josette Féral, e sobre performance, de Paul Zumthor e Renato Cohen), isto é, cujo emprego numa sentença cria uma força ilocucionária capaz de produzir um efeito de suspensão temporal, alterando a percepção do público (leitor ou espectador). / Repetition, according to David Hume, changes nothing in the object that is repeated, but modifies something in the spirit which beholds it: it unleashes a difference in perception in the observer. The texts of the French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) are marked by the systematic return of words, phrases, expressions, characters and themes, to the point that the recent criticism that revolves around him sees in this characteristic a kind of Lagarcian ethos. The detailed analysis of two texts of the author - Carthage, encore (written in the beginning of his career) and Jétais dans ma maison et jattendais que la pluie vienne (in the end of his life) reveals an interesting aspect: in them repetition works as a needle, weaving his work, unleashing another perception of the passing of time, in which past, present and future gradually thin out, becoming compact: the apprehension of the passing of time is suspended and, simultaneously, a gap to eternity is open. The present paper proposes to understand the use of repetition in these two texts as a performative element, that is, whose use in a sentence creates an illocutionary strength able to produce an effect of time suspension, modifying the perception of the public (reader or spectator).

La phénoménologie de la donation se présente sous la forme d´un projet d´ouverture radicale du champ de la phénoménalité. Après avoir montré que la modernité a enfermé les phénomènes dans des conditions de possibilité dictées par un Sujet, et que la phénoménologie allemande a poursuivi ce geste en indexant les phénomènes sur l´horizon de l´objectité ou de l´étantité, Marion propose de reconduire le geste de la réduction phénoménologique à la seule donation. Ce faisant, il réintroduit en phénoménologie des phénomènes paradoxaux – phénomènes saturés – qui font violence, par excès, aux capacités réceptrices du Sujet. Marion introduit donc en phénoménologie une nouvelle modalité de l´invisibilité (et donc de la visibilité) que nous appelons « inexistence » (en opposition tout autant avec le non-être qu’avec la non-existence), dont la structure est paradoxalement fondée sur celle de l´écrit, puisqu´il s´agit ni plus ni moins, pour elle, que de présenter de façon positive une absence selon la logique de la signification. Ce faisant, et de par cette structure discursive de la visibilité, toute la phénoménologie de Marion peut être lue comme une véritable apologie de l´inexistence. / The phenomenology of givenness is presented in the form of a project of radical opening of the field of phenomenality. After having shown that modernity has enclosed phenomena under conditions of possibility dictated by a Subject, and that German phenomenology has pursued this gesture by indexing phenomena in the horizon of objectivity or of beingness, Marion proposes to reestablish the gesture of phenomenological reduction to single donation. In so doing, he reintroduces into phenomenology some paradoxical phenomena —saturated phenomena— which violate, by excess, the receptive capacities of the Subject. Marion thus introduces into phenomenology a new modality of invisibility (and thus of visibility) which we call "inexistance" (equally opposed to non-being as to non-existence), whose structure is paradoxically founded on that of writting, since it is neither more nor less, for inexistence, than to present in a positive way an absence according to the logic of meaning. In so doing, and through this discursive structure of visibility, all Marion's phenomenology can be read as a true apology for existence.

Na bibliografia brasileira, Jean-Luc Godard aparece com destaque em pesquisas sobre o cinema brasileiro moderno e sobre a história da censura cinematográfica no país. O realizador franco-suíço é descrito como uma referência fundamental para alguns cineastas brasileiros modernos, como um norteador dos debates travados em nossa crítica e como um objeto de atenção especial por parte dos censores da ditadura militar. Partindo desse lugar privilegiado conferido a Godard, esta pesquisa investigou historicamente a recepção e a interdição dos filmes do cineasta no Brasil no período entre 1961 e 1970. Em um primeiro momento (capítulos 1 a 3), analisamos os debates estéticos e políticos suscitados na crítica pelos filmes de Godard em três jornais de grande veiculação do período (Correio da manhã, Jornal do Brasil e O Estado de S. Paulo); em seguida (capítulo 4), identificamos as apropriações que os críticos-cineastas Glauber Rocha e Rogério Sganzerla realizaram da obra godardiana em seus escritos; e, por fim (capítulo 5), abordamos a documentação censória relativa aos filmes do realizador. Dessa maneira, constatamos o importante papel que Godard desempenhou na conformação do cinema brasileiro moderno, bem como o impacto que sua obra exerceu, cultural e politicamente, no país. Conforme evidenciaremos, naquele momento havia uma conjuntura sociocultural modernista, de esquerda e jovem que favoreceu a recepção do cineasta no Brasil. Ao mesmo tempo em que foi lida à luz de tal conjuntura, a obra godardiana atuou enquanto seu catalisador, estimulando novos projetos e debates em seu interior. O cineasta foi instrumentalizado por projetos de vanguarda no cinema e em ouras artes, estimulou a politização de esquerda e dialogou com os anseios de uma cultura jovem e libertária em expansão. Paralelamente, confirmamos a atenção especial que Godard recebeu dos censores da ditadura militar brasileira. Afinal, a ditadura se opunha a tal conjuntura e, por isso, viu no cineasta um perigo a ser combatido, uma vez que seus filmes atentavam contra os dois pilares básicos da ideologia que norteava o regime, o anticomunismo e a moral conservadora. Conforme demonstraremos, tal atenção especial se deu sobretudo nos anos 1970, mas teve suas raízes em 1968, quando duas películas de Godard foram interditadas e uma imagem extremamente negativa do realizador foi consolidada no órgão censório. / In the Brazilian literature, Jean-Luc Godard appears prominently in researches on modern Brazilian cinema and on the history of cinematographic censorship in the country. The Franco-Swiss director is described as a fundamental reference for some modern Brazilian filmmakers; as a guiding force on the debates held within our critique; and as an object of special attention by the censors of the military dictatorship. From this privileged place conferred to Godard, this research historically investigated the reception and interdiction of his films, in Brazil, between 1961 and 1970. First (Chapters 1 to 3), we analyze the aesthetic and political debates raised in criticism of Godard\'s films in three major newspapers of the given period (Correio da manhã, Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S. Paulo). Then (Chapter 4), we identify the appropriations of the Godardian word made by the critical-filmmakers Glauber Rocha and Rogério Sganzerla. Finally (Chapter 5), we approach the censorship documentation relating to the director\'s films. Our findings showed the important role Godard played in the conformation of modern Brazilian cinema, as well as the impact that his work exerted, culturally and politically, in the country. As we will show, the socio-cultural context of the time modernist, leftist and youthful favored the filmmakers reception in Brazil. At the same time as it was read in the light of such a conjuncture, Godard\'s work acted as a catalyst for it, stimulating new projects and debates within. The filmmaker was instrumented by avant-garde projects in the cinema and in other arts, and then stimulated the politicization of the left and dialogued with the yearnings of a young and libertarian culture in expansion. We also found evidence of the special attention that Godard received from the censors of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Opposed to the referred conjuncture, the dictatorship saw in the filmmaker a danger to be fought, since his films were against the two basic pillars of the regime: anticommunism and conservative morality. As we will show, he received such special attention mainly in the 1970s, but it had its roots in 1968 when two of Godard\'s films were banned and an extremely negative image of the filmmaker was consolidated by the censorship.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Théologie morale--Rome--Académie Alphonsienne, 2006. / Bibliogr. p. 335-345.

« Poète et non honnête homme. On ne consulte que l’oreille, parce qu’on manque de cœur » : il y a peut-être une très grande proximité entre cette pensée de Pascal et l’inspiration de la pensée de Marion. Dans l’article « De la “mort de Dieu” aux noms divins » il fait allusion à une logique de la charité à développer, comme tâche pour la pensée. Ce qu’on a tenté de reconstruire, c’est le développement de cette inspiration, en ayant comme point de départ le concept de négation, tel qu’il émerge dans Certitudes négatives. La négation constitue, dans ce texte, par le concept de certitude négative, un troisième élargissement de la phénoménalité, qui saisit non seulement l’excès de l’intuition par rapport aux concepts, mais l’impossibilité que l’excès impose aux concepts. Marion présente un discours sur la limite, transcendantale, à entendre comme le lieu où se donne un degré redoublé de réalité. Cette avancée, qui montre qu’aussi la négation relève de la donation, doit être mise en perspective avec le constat, qui caractérise la fin de Reduction et donation, que la négation, par l’ennui, est la condition pour accéder à la donation. On a essayé d’approfondir ce nœud par la reconstruction de l’émergence de la négation dans la pensée de Marion et de ses caractères, avec une particulière attention au concept de distance et à sa genèse. Par cette voie on a pu mettre en évidence l’articulation concrète et la centralité dans l’œuvre de Marion du rapport entre phénoménologie et apophatisme, et la façon avec laquelle elle peut se développer en une logique de la charité. / Between phenomenology and apophatism : starting from Jean-Luc Marion « Poet and not honest man. We consult only the ear, because we lack heart ». There is perhaps a great proximity between this thought of Pascal and the inspiration of Marion's thought. In the article « De la “mort de dieu” aux noms divins » he alludes to a logic of charity to develop, as a task for thought. What we have tried to reconstruct is the development of this inspiration, having as a starting point the concept of negation, as it emerges in certain Certitudes négatives. Negation constitutes in this text, by the concept of negative certainty, a third enlargement of phenomenality - after the givenness and saturated phenomena - which captures not only the excess of intuition in relation to concepts, but the impossibility that excess imposes on concepts. Marion presents a discourse on the transcendental limit, to be understood as the place where a redoubled degree of reality is given. This advance, which shows that the negation belongs to the givenness, must be put into perspective with the finding, which characterizes the end of Reduction and givenness, that negation, through boredom, is the condition for accessing the donation. We tried to analyze this crux by reconstructing the emergence of negation in Marion's thought and its characters, with particular attention to the concept of distance and its genesis. In this way it has been possible to highlight the concrete articulation and centrality in Marion's work of the relationship between phenomenology and apophatism, and the way in which it can develop into a logic of charity.

A repetição, diria David Hume, nada muda no objeto que se repete em si, mas altera algo no espírito que o contempla: ela desencadeia uma diferença de percepção naquele que observa. Os textos do dramaturgo francês Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) são marcados pelo retorno sistemático de palavras, frases, expressões, personagens e temas, a ponto de a crítica recente que se articula em torno dele ver nessa característica uma espécie de ethos lagarciano. A análise pormenorizada de dois textos do autor Carthage, encore (escrito no início de sua carreira) e Jétais dans ma maison et j\'attendais que la pluie vienne (no fim de sua vida) revela um aspecto interessante: neles a repetição parece funcionar como uma agulha, tecendo a obra, desencadeando uma outra percepção da temporalidade na qual passado, presente e futuro vão gradativamente diluindo-se, condensando-se: suspende-se a apreensão da passagem do tempo e, simultaneamente, abre-se uma brecha na eternidade. O presente trabalho propõe-se a entender o uso da repetição nestes dois textos percebendo-a como um elemento performativo (de acordo com os trabalhos sobre teatro performativo realizados por Josette Féral, e sobre performance, de Paul Zumthor e Renato Cohen), isto é, cujo emprego numa sentença cria uma força ilocucionária capaz de produzir um efeito de suspensão temporal, alterando a percepção do público (leitor ou espectador). / Repetition, according to David Hume, changes nothing in the object that is repeated, but modifies something in the spirit which beholds it: it unleashes a difference in perception in the observer. The texts of the French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) are marked by the systematic return of words, phrases, expressions, characters and themes, to the point that the recent criticism that revolves around him sees in this characteristic a kind of Lagarcian ethos. The detailed analysis of two texts of the author - Carthage, encore (written in the beginning of his career) and Jétais dans ma maison et jattendais que la pluie vienne (in the end of his life) reveals an interesting aspect: in them repetition works as a needle, weaving his work, unleashing another perception of the passing of time, in which past, present and future gradually thin out, becoming compact: the apprehension of the passing of time is suspended and, simultaneously, a gap to eternity is open. The present paper proposes to understand the use of repetition in these two texts as a performative element, that is, whose use in a sentence creates an illocutionary strength able to produce an effect of time suspension, modifying the perception of the public (reader or spectator).