Jean-Luc Marion: writing the absence. the “theological turn” as the prospect of philosophy

Abstract

Of the philosophers who belong to the “Theological Turn”, Jen-Luc Marion is probably the one who best has followed Heidegger’s idea of a radical phenomenology: a phenomenology of the unapparent. He has done this by introducing in phenomenality the socalled “saturated phenomena”, which has brought him into the center of the debate. As a response to his critics, this paper exhibits that such broadening of+ phenomenality does not come necessarily from a theological will, but from a necessity to release phenomenality from the paradigm of the view in favor of a paradigm of saying. Bearing this in mind, an effort of reconciling Phenomenology with Analytical Philosophy is undertaken.