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Evil and Givenness
The Thanatonic Phenomenon
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2022
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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.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5116-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5117-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
172
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction The Problem of the Problem of Evil No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter One “They Shall Know Them by Their Fruits” A Phenomenology of Givenness No access
Chapter Two Parasitic Givenness No access
Chapter Three Lost Time The Event of Trauma No access
Chapter Four The Evil Eye No access
Chapter Five “It Is No Longer I Who Do It” The Foreign-Body No access
Chapter Six “Surely It Is Not I” The Abject No access
Chapter Seven Being Diminished The Thanatonic Ego No access
