Phenomenology, Givenness, Mystery: Dilating Subjectivity
Phenomenology and theology continue to induce interdisciplinary analysis of selfhood and spiritual experience. In what follows, I discuss minimalist and maximalist phenomenologies. The latter opens up space for phenomenology to be informed by the theological concept of mystery. A maximalist phenomen...
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| description | Phenomenology and theology continue to induce interdisciplinary analysis of selfhood and spiritual experience. In what follows, I discuss minimalist and maximalist phenomenologies. The latter opens up space for phenomenology to be informed by the theological concept of mystery. A maximalist phenomenology makes possible a particular variety of selfhood, what I call the dilated or middle-voiced subject, which belongs neither to pure passivity of recent French phenomenology nor to the strong agency of Cartesian and Kantian legacies. Such a middle-voiced structure facilitates the given to be received in the act of dilation or expansion of the self. The final section discusses the implications this may hold for spiritual experience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d57f27241fe444889eeb2fd7b15a723f2023-11-19T02:50:58ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442023-08-01148100810.3390/rel14081008Phenomenology, Givenness, Mystery: Dilating SubjectivityJoseph Rivera0School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music, All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University, D09 DXA0 Dublin, IrelandPhenomenology and theology continue to induce interdisciplinary analysis of selfhood and spiritual experience. In what follows, I discuss minimalist and maximalist phenomenologies. The latter opens up space for phenomenology to be informed by the theological concept of mystery. A maximalist phenomenology makes possible a particular variety of selfhood, what I call the dilated or middle-voiced subject, which belongs neither to pure passivity of recent French phenomenology nor to the strong agency of Cartesian and Kantian legacies. Such a middle-voiced structure facilitates the given to be received in the act of dilation or expansion of the self. The final section discusses the implications this may hold for spiritual experience.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/8/1008phenomenologyselfmysterytheologydilation |
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| title | Phenomenology, Givenness, Mystery: Dilating Subjectivity |
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