Philosophy and Phenomenology of Religion
The religious phenomenon between manifestation and non-manifestation
Abstract
Since the 1990s, a polemic has affected phenomenology. This polemic was initiated by Dominique Janicaud, who accused some French phenomenologists (Lévinas, Marion, Henry, among others) of extending the conditions of manifestation of the phenomenon beyond the limits that any appearance must have. Along with this extension, they would also have interpreted phenomenology as the only practicable philosophical method, based on the fact that, since everything that manifests itself must first of all be able to give itself, by right everything can give itself and, therefore, no limits were imposed on manifestation. This also made it possible to extend the characteristics of the phenomenon to "religious data". However, this is not the only way in which phenomenology and religion have been related. Before this French moment of phenomenology, other authors already addressed the subject. Among them is Gerardus van der Leeuw, who shows that it is possible to speak of phenomenology and religion without having to renounce the horizons of phenomenology (the subject, the world, being) while maintaining the specificity of the religious phenomenon.
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