Sunday, July 13, 2008

Marion retracting his position on Aquinas

"The act of being St. Thomas contemplates derives neither from metaphysics nor from ontology nor . . . from the [Heideggerian] 'question of being', but from the divine names and the 'luminous darkness'."

"L'esse que médite saint Thomas ne relève ni de la métaphysique, ni de l'ontologie ni même de la «question de l'être», mais des noms divins et de la «ténèbre lumineuse»."

     Jean-Luc Marion, "Saint Thomas d'Aquin et l'onto-théologie," Revue thomiste 95 (1995): 66.  This was later translated by Thomas A. Carlson as "The esse that Thomas meditates on may deal not with metaphysics, or ontology, or even the 'question of being' but, instead, with the divine names and on the 'luminous darkness'" ("Thomas Aquinas and Onto-theo-logy," in God without being, 2nd ed., trans. Thomas A. Carlson with a foreward by David Tracy and a new Preface by Jean-Luc Marion (Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 2012), 236 (199-236, 270-280)).
     From 49:38 of his lecture "Saint Thomas Aquinas:  Still being," delivered at the Angelicum on 23 or 24 May 2025, during the conference on "Thomism and phenomenology," Emmanuel Falque claims that Marion omitted this from (the second edition of?) God without being because [unintelligible] insisted that it is impossible to interpret Aquinas as "only Dionysian."  Is Falque speaking about the second French edition?  Because it is clearly there in the English translation, above.  (The 1994 (?) lecture above is, of course, not present at all in the first edition of 1982/1991.)

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