THE RADICALIZATION PROGRAM OF PHENOMENOLOGY OF JEAN-LUC MARION
THE RADICALIZATION PROGRAM OF PHENOMENOLOGY OF JEAN-LUC MARION

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the project of radicalization of phenomenology in Jean-LucMarion. The very idea of radicalization has been associated with phenomenologysince its origin and means a return to the main idea to study the appearance ofphenomena, rethink it and draw the maximum consequences from it. Marion argueswith Husserl and Heidegger, who, in his opinion, stopped halfway in thephenomenological path: the first reducing all phenomena to objects, the secondreducing everything to being. Meanwhile, Marion is about freeing the phenomenonso that it appears on its own and as it is. In this purpose, he adopts the fundamentalprinciple of phenomenology as “so much reduction, so much givenness”, whichshows that he bases his project on two concepts: reduction and givenness. The nextstep is to develop the issue of givenness and describe phenomena in its light.Marion's precious discovery is the saturated phenomena, which are characterized byan excess of visibility relative to the concept. Marion's project is completed with ananalysis of the gift and the subject. It should be noted that, despite polemics, Marion'sphenomenology is an interesting and successful attempt to radicalizephenomenology. Its valuable contribution is reflection on the fundamental principlesof phenomenology, which gains value especially in the time of various “appliedphenomenologies”.

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