Weak subjectivity, trans-subjectivity and the power of event

Christine Daigle and Elodie Boulil (eds.), Nietzsche and Phenomenology, indiana University Press, 2013

Double Dialogues, 2013 Spring

Contemporary French phenomenology intends to explore the territories perhaps indicated but mostly ignored or abandoned by Husserl and Heidegger. However, it can be considered an heir to historical phenomenology when understood as a general path of inquiry into phenomenality. Its common goal is to study phenomena like invisible, totality, affectivity, le visage or Saturated Phenomena which escape the donation of meaning determined by consciousness and its correlative noetic-noematic structure. This pathos of thought proceeds from a change of paradigm, the modification of the concept of phenomenon now considered as the event of meaning. The phenomenon as occuring, its transpiring as and in an event, brings together several of its features: the spontaneous formation of meaning, the nonobjective excess (ungegenständlicher Überschuss) at the heart of the phenomenon and the paradoxal character of the given. I will examine three protagonist of the this new mouvement, Michel Henry, Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Marion, in order to understand the modification of the concept of phenomenon as givenness and event.

Therefore Ratio's assosiation Journal, 2020

This study provides to display the performative character of the work Being and Time by Heidegger in order to clarify the cryptic and obscure ontological and phenomenological expressive language. The concept of performativity which has mostly been examined in depth by the philosophers Antonio Cimino and Rüdiger H. Rimpler in order to attempts to display how the textual expression has not to do with the traditional objectifying descriptive analysis of the being, but rather with a performance of the ordinary understanding and language by aiming to raise the question of meaning of being [Die Frage nach dem Sinn von Sein stellen]. How should ordinary words and terms, which are employed in the ontological-phenomenological investigation, be interpreted and understood? According to the interpretation by Feldman, these words seem to be defamiliarized through a catachresis because they are extracted from their everyday context and converted in un-handy tools, namely excluded from the ordinary common use. The following work intends to show that this interpretation misunderstands the very meaning of the ontological-phenomenological investigation of Being and Time. Through an analysis of the phenomenal structure of the everydayness of Dasein’s being, under the conceivement of the concept of performativity, this paper seeks to display the risk of conceiving the ontological-phenomenological method as a technical attitude for the ontological investigation and, moreover, it aims to offer a plausible interpretative line to show how the phenomenally complex ontological-phenomenological language is grounded in an expressive ambiguity of words and terms and in a synchronically and contingently co-dwelling of several meanings, with the aim to disclose the authentic meaning of being.

2016

This project brings into focus the nature of an event in continental philosophy as it relates to the phenomenon of the death of another person. In this, I offer a description of what is philosophically happening when another person dies for those who survive this person with particular focus on the ontological, ethical, and theological implications of such a death. I maintain that the best such phenomenological description comes through engaging the death of the other in terms of the technical usage of the event in continental philosophy. In short, I argue that the death of the other is an event because such a death is not only the loss of the person but also the loss of the meaning of the world to and with this person. So the death of the other is a death of the world. To argue this, I trace the discussion about the nature of an event from Martin Heidegger’s account of the event through the French reception of this aspect of Heidegger’s philosophy in the works of Jacques Derrida an...

Open Philosophy, 2018

This paper intends to offer a new assessment of the “Ontological Difference” (OD), one of Martin Heidegger’s mainstays, in the light of the metaphysical view called “dialetheism”. In the first paragraph I briefly summarize the main argument of Heidegger’s contradiction of Being, where OD is present as a premise. In the second paragraph I introduce dialetheism, indicate two kinds of dialetheic solutions to the paradox and explain why they face comeback troubles from OD. The third paragraph is devoted to a review of Heidegger’s uses of OD and underlines the crucial role of negation in it. In the fourth paragraph I investigate the philosopher’s account of negation and show similarities with the account provided by the paraconsistent logic called “Logic of Paradox”. The fifth paragraph puts forward two possible readings of OD, the first based on the classical notion of negation and the second on the notion of negation pointed out in the previous paragraph. The second reading is proved suitable for dialetheists and in accordance with the exegesis of some textual passages from Heidegger’s late works.

Modern theology, 2006

2014

This paper acknowledges the very nature of being where concerns absolute subjectivity from the noumenal perspective; engaging both the phenomenality of representational being as the necessary agency of becoming in the post-industrial age—and reason as it pertains to the authentication of a revolutionary approach to participatory democracy and the emancipation from oppressive authoritarian regimes. The elucidation of collective substance and the 'transcendental identical' will solidify the notion that agency is transformative of the metapsychological dynamic that herein may produce a wealth of abstract objective essence;—and an oblique consideration of what makes absolute subjectivity so relevant to the post-industrial onto-epistemological aesthetic.