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Jason Alvis

4 Publications

Phenomenology of Religious Experience V

Open Theology

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, Jason Alvis, Michael Staudigl (eds)

2021

“Open Theology” (https://www. degruyter.

Phenomenology and the post-secular turn

Michael Staudigl, Jason Alvis (eds)

Routledge - London

2018

Are we living in a ‘post-secular age’, and can phenomenology help us better understand the discontents of secularism? From Habermas’ claim that the secular hypothesis has failed for democratic reasons to the fact that religion, far from its predicted dwindling, is as strong as ever (or even stronger than before), some have concluded that secularism as we know it is over. Others have questioned whether we have ever truly been secular, if the concept applies only to European societies, or whether the very notion of religiosity is merely a weapon of pacification in the hands of Western universalism.

The inconspicuous God

Jason Alvis

Indiana University Press - Bloomington, In

2018

Dominique Janicaud once famously critiqued the work of French phenomenologists of the theological turn because their work was built on the seemingly corrupt basis of Heidegger's notion of the inapparent or inconspicuous. In this powerful reconsideration and extension of Heidegger's phenomenology of the inconspicuous, Jason W.

Marion and Derrida on the gift and desire

Jason Alvis

Springer - Berlin

2016

This book examines the various encounters between Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida on “the gift,” considers their many differences on “desire,” and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some of phenomenology’s most pressing structural questions, especially regarding “deconstructive” approaches within the field. The book claims that the topic of desire is a central lynchpin to understanding the two thinkers’ conflict over the gift, for the gift is reducible to the “desire to give,” which initiates a turn to the topic of “generosity.

4 Publications