Le phéno mène et le transcendantal (Jean-Luc Marion, Marc Richir et la question de la phéno ménalisation)
The phenomenon and the transcendental (Jean-Luc Marion, Marc Richir, and the issue of phenomenalization)

Summary/Abstract: After reviewing the status of the concept of the phenomenon in Husserl’s phenomenology and the aimof successive attempts to reform, de-formalize, and to widen it, we show the difficulties of a methodthat, following the example of Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology, intends to connect the phenomenondirectly to the revelation of an exteriority. We argue that, on the contrary, Marc Richir’s phenomenology,which strives to grasp the phenomenon as nothing-but-phenomenon, is more likely to capture the«meaning» of the phenomenological, and hence to help us orient in the field of problems that phenomenologyencounters without always knowing how to tackle them. Yet, this extension of the phenomenon’sdomain does not thereby encompass everything: there may well be certain issues that requirea phenomenology without phenomenon; but the meaning of this cannot be determined before thecomplete reenvisioning of transcendental phenomenology.

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