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Reading Heidegger: Is God Without Being? Jean-Luc Marion's reading of Martin Heidegger in God Without Being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Laurence Hemming
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Jean-Luc Marion is one of the first theologians to take seriously the force of Heidegger’s critique of metaphysics as a whole, which means he takes seriously Heidegger’s claims about the “overcoming” (Überwindung) of metaphysics. In other words, when in the work of Martin Heidegger the whole of metaphysics is thrown into question, any and all of its determinations become “questionable”, that is, worthy of being questioned. Marion concedes the impact this may have for theology.

This study concerns itself with how Jean Luc-Marion attempts in the work God Without Being to speak of God after Martin Heidegger’s claims for the overcoming of metaphysics. This arises as a question about the extent to which Jean-Luc Marion has been attentive to what Heidegger says. Marion appeals to an accepted philosophical reading of Heidegger in order to inaugurate a fresh theological reading of Heidegger. Underlying this study is the view that Marion is insufficiently attentive to the complexity of Heidegger’s thinking.

In order to show how this is so in the limited space available here, I propose to undertake a re-reading of two of the key texts upon which Marion rests for his case against Heidegger in God Without Being, with, I hope, surprising results for Marion’s project. Finally, I wish to conclude with some more general remarks about the Icon, which may at least point us in the direction of a more constructive reading of Heidegger’s work.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Blackfriars , Volume 76 , Issue 895 , July 1995 , pp. 343 - 350
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 God without Being p. 2.

2 ibid. p. 3.

3 ibid. p. 3.

4 ibid. p. 42.

5 ibid. p. 42.

6 ibid. p. 43.

7 Martin Heidegger Die Technik und die Kehre, Neske, Pfullingen 1962 p. 45. published in English in The Question Concerning Technology and other Essays trans. William Lovitt, Harper, London 1977, p. 47.

8 cf. God without Being p. 44. Marion cites the passage from Die Kehre.

9 ibid. p. 33.

10 ibid. p. xix

11 From Seminaire de Zürich, quoted in full in God without Being p. 61.

12 ibid. p. 63.

13 ibid. p. 62 (citing Heidegger Nietzsche II Neske, Pfullingen, 1961, p. 132).

14 ibid. p. 64.

15 Nietzsche II p. 132.