Published: 2025-06-30

The End of Metaphysics. What Comes Next?

Piotr Karpiński Profil ORCID autora Piotr Karpiński
Studia Philosophiae Christianae
Section: Papers
DOI https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2025.61.A.04

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss Jean-Luc Marion’s engagement with Heidegger’s “end of metaphysics” thesis. The French phenomenologist acknowledges the importance of Heidegger’s insights, particularly concerning the neglect of being and the so-called ontological difference. At the same time, he identifies in Heidegger’s thought an insufficient elaboration of the formula “es gibtcela donne.” Marion shares Heidegger’s understanding of the “end of metaphysics” thesis and the necessity of overcoming it. Yet, they differ with respect to the shape of philosophy “after metaphysics.” While for Heidegger this meant a thinking of Being, Marion discerns in the notion of givenness a more originary and radical phenomenality – one that conditions even Being itself. However, a concern arises: does such an absolute privileging of givenness not reintroduce metaphysics, or perhaps even theology, back into philosophy?

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Received: 15/02/2025. Reviewed: 22/05/2025. Accepted: 2/06/2025.

Keywords:

givenness, Jean-Luc Marion, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, phenomenology

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Karpiński, P. (2025). The End of Metaphysics. What Comes Next?. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 61(1), 71–93. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2025.61.A.04

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