HAAS, ALEXANDER, MA August 2020
HAAS, ALEXANDER, M.A. August 2020 PHILOSOPHY MARION, HEIDEGGER, AND THE QUESTION OF GIVENNESS (74 pp.) Thesis Advisor: Gina Zavota 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. MARION, HEIDEGGER, AND THE QUESTION OF GIVENNESS A thesis submitted To Kent State University in partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Alexander Haas August 2020 © Copyright All rights reserved Except for previously published materials Thesis written by Alexander Haas B.A., Kent State University, 2015 M.A. Kent State University, 2020 Approved by _______________________________, Advisor Gina Zavota _______________________________, Chair, Department of Philosophy Michael Byron
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