A01=Brian W. Becker
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Brian W. Becker
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HPCF3
Category=HPQ
Category=HRAB
Category=JMAF
Category=QDHR5
Category=QDTQ
Category=QRAB
continental philosophy
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
givenness
good and evil
Jean-Luc Marion
Language_English
neuropsychology
PA=Available
phenomenology
philosophy of evil
philosophy of religion
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
psychoanalysis
religious studies
softlaunch
theodicy
theological turn
theology
trauma
Product details
- ISBN 9781793651167
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 161 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 23 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Evil and Givenness: The Thanatonic Phenomenon provides a phenomenological study of evil in its conceptual integrity.Describing a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil in its distinct mode of givenness and manners of manifestation, the account of evil in this book centers on the thanatonic as that phenomenality proper to evil. Although situated within a phenomenology of givenness via Jean-Luc Marion, the thanatonic is distinguished from saturated phenomena by giving itself in a parasitic mode. Brian W. Becker identifies four figures as displaying characteristics of this parasitic givenness—trauma, evil eye, foreign-body, and abject—each expressing a dimension of the thanatonic and paralleling the four figures of the saturated phenomenon. Like the four horsemen who serve as heralds for the destruction of the world, these figures beckon the destruction of our lifeworld, diminishing the self who encounters them. Upon losing the will to bear the excess of saturated phenomena, the receding of horizons, and the loss of singularity, this impoverished self misrecognizes itself in a manner that begins to resemble the metaphysical ego and, in doing so, becomes a vector for retransmitting the thanatonic’s suffering unto others.
Brian W. Becker is professor of neuropsychology at Lesley University and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion.
