Being Given is the clearest, most systematic response to questions that have occupied its author for the better
part of two decades. The book articulates a powerful set of concepts that should provoke new research in philosophy,
religion, and art, as well as at the intersection of these disciplines.
Some of the significant issues it treats include the phenomenological definition of the phenomenon, the redefinition
of the gift in terms not of economy but of givenness, the nature of saturated phenomena, and the question "Who
comes after the subject?" Throughout his consideration of these issues, the author carefully notes their significance
for the increasingly popular fields of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Being Given is therefore indispensable
reading for anyone interested in the question of the relation between the phenomenological and the theological
in Marion and emergent French phenomenology.
Table of Contents
Bk. I Givenness
1. The Last Principle
2. The Essence of the Phenomenon
3. Objectness and Beingness
4. The Reduction to the Given
5. Privilege of Givenness
6. To Give Itself, to Show Itself
Bk. II The Gift
7. Two Objections
8. The Reduction of the Gift to Givenness
9. The Bracketing of the Givee
10. The Bracketing of the Giver
11. The Bracketing of the Gift
12. Intrinsic Givenness
Bk. III The Given I: Determinations
13. Anamorphosis
14. Unpredictable Landing
15. The Fait Accompli
16. The Incident
17. The Event
18. The Being Given
Bk. IV The Given II: Degrees
19. The Horizon and the I
20. Intuition as Shortage
21. Sketch of the Saturated Phenomenon: The Horizon
22. Sketch of the Saturated Phenomenon: I
23. Topics of the Phenomenon
24. To Give Itself, to Reveal Itself
Bk. V The Gifted
25. The Aporias of the "Subject"
26. To Receive One's Self from What Gives Itself
27. Two Calls in Metaphysics
28. The Call and the Responsal
29. The Nameless Voice
30. Abandon
