The aim of this article is to present Jean-Luc Marion's discussion of Heidegger's idea of ‘the end of metaphysics’. The French phenomenologist appreciates Martin Heidegger's discoveries, especially those related to the failure to perceive being and the so-called ontological difference, while at the same time recognising the German philosopher's insufficient reflection on the formula ‘es gibt – cela donne’. Marion shares Heidegger's understanding of the ‘end of metaphysics’ and the need to overcome it, while differing in his conception of the philosophy ‘after metaphysics’. While for Heidegger it was to be the thinking of being, Marion sees in donation the source and extreme phenomenality that even conditions being. However, there is a concern that such an absolute treatment of donation reintroduces metaphysics, and perhaps even theology, into philosophy. This doubt will be considered in the article.
Excerpt: "(...) Marion's approach does not reduce Heidegger's proposal to a slogan, but is thoroughly methodical and rigorous. He accepted the positive nature of the “end of metaphysics” as a definition of the spirit of the age. Metaphysics is coming to an end because it is unable to conceive of being, nothingness or time in terms of presence and representation. Since being is so fundamentally different from existence, a new path to it must be found, a path that lies in the very mode of giving – not es ist but es gibt. Marion's reflection on the expression ‘es gibt – cela donne’ proves to be extremely fruitful. It is in it that he found the ‘Archimedean point’ for his entire future philosophy. Marion developed his entire theory of donation in his work Being Given (1997). We will not discuss its assumptions in detail here, as we are interested in a different issue – not the detailed interpretation of donation itself, but the accuracy of the solution to the problem of ‘transcending metaphysics’ (p. 89).
Table of contents: 1. Introduction. 2. The problem of metaphysics in Heidegger. 3. Fulfillment or destruction of metaphysics? 4. Forgetting being and nihilism. 5. Marion's critique. 6. The phenomenology of donation as a radical transcendence of metaphysics. 7. Summary and discussion.
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