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Marion, Heidegger, and the question of givenness

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2020, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy.
In Being Given, Jean-Luc Marion claims that Heidegger errs in subordinating the givenness of phenomena to Ereignis, unduly restricting the ways in which phenomena can be said to “give themselves”. The problem, however, is that without this stricture, we are unable to make certain distinctions that are indispensable for understanding phenomena in the diversity of their appearing. Take, for example, technological phenomena (e.g., televisions, radios, computers, etc.) On Marion’s account, these phenomena give themselves; show themselves insofar as they give themselves. But is this really giving, or instead, a kind of intrusion, a permeating of our space by technological phenomena? What Marion is missing, is a robust account of the context, or better, the locus of apparition that allows us to differentiate the ways in which phenomena show up. I will argue that Heidegger’s notion of Ereignis is such a locus.
Gina Zavota, PhD (Advisor)
Michael Byron, PhD (Committee Member)
Berger Benjamin, PhD (Committee Member)
Joanna Trzeciak-Huss, PhD (Committee Member)
74 p.

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  • Haas, A. (2020). Marion, Heidegger, and the question of givenness [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595008180179881

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Haas, Alexander. Marion, Heidegger, and the question of givenness. 2020. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595008180179881.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Haas, Alexander. "Marion, Heidegger, and the question of givenness." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595008180179881

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)