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.

Discipline

Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

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