The Amorous Imagination: Individuating the Other-as-Beloved
Date of Award
1-1-2018
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
Joint Ph.D. Program in Study of Religion
First Advisor
Sarah Pessin, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Theodore Vial
Third Advisor
Adam Graves
Fourth Advisor
Gregory Robbins
Keywords
Hermeneutics, Imagination, Individuation, Love, Marion, Other
Abstract
This project attempts to answer the question, "How does the Other become the Beloved?" It conducts a hermeneutical phenomenology of love in order to describe the process of radical individuation that converts the Other into the Beloved. Drawing on Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of givenness and saturation it argues that the Other becomes the Beloved through the activity of the amorous imagination. The amorous imagination is both a hermeneutical site of reception and a creative-responsive faculty that engages in an "endless hermeneutic" that individuates the Other-as-Beloved.
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.
Rights Holder
Donald Andrew Yost
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
194 p.
Recommended Citation
Yost, Donald Andrew, "The Amorous Imagination: Individuating the Other-as-Beloved" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1517.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1517
Copyright date
2018
Discipline
Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion