Paradoxes of Experience: Questioning the Limits of Phenomenality in E. Levinas and J.-L. Marion
Problemos December 27, 2022 Laurynas Norus
The article examines how Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion expand the boundaries of phenomenology beyond Edmund Husserl's framework. Contrary to critics who see a problematic "theological turn" in their work, the author argues that both thinkers remain grounded in ordinary, accessible experience rather than mystical or special experience. By decentering the experiencing subject, Levinas and Marion force a rethinking of what can appear to consciousness and where the limits of phenomenality lie. The article does not treat this development as a distortion of phenomenological method but as a legitimate focus on aspects of experience that Husserlian phenomenology overlooked.