Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience: Spiritual Themes in Henry, Marion, and Lacoste [Paperback]

This book explores the threshold between phenomenology and lived religion in dialogue with three French luminaries: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Yves Lacoste.This book explores the threshold between phenomenology and lived religion in dialogue with three French luminaries: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jean-Yves Lacoste. Through close reading and critical analysis, each chapter touches on how a liturgical and ritual setting or a spiritual vision of the body can shape and ultimately structure the experience of an individuals surrounding world. The volume advances debate about the scope and limits of the phenomenological analysis of religious themes and disturbs the assumption that theology and phenomenology are incapable of constructive interdisciplinary dialogue.Part 1 Horizonality  1. Overcoming the Metaphysics of Representation  2. Affection and the Horizon of Experience   Part 2  Michel Henry and Life  3. Incarnate Self: The Night of Love  4. Spiritual Life and the Phenomenology of Life  5. The Spirit of Empathy  Part 3 Jean-Luc Marion and the Gift  6. Selving: Ladonn? and Ethics  7. Spiritual Exercises: An Augustinian Reduction  8. The Given and the Manifestation of the Trinity  Part 4 Jean-Yves Lacoste and Liturgy  9. Spiritual Life: Angst, Peace, Love  10. Lived Experience and Metaphysics in Theology  11. The Body and Eucharistic Experience  Postscript  12. Sacramental Worldhood

Joseph Rivera is a tenured professor of philosophy and theology at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is the author of The Contemplative Sellã3