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Reduction and a New Phenomenality-Focusing on Jean-Luc Marion-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2026, (50), pp.135~159
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 28, 2026
  • Accepted : February 12, 2026
  • Published : February 28, 2026

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ABSTRACT

Marion inherits Husserl’s “donation” as the core of phenomenology, but criticizes Husserl for basing the ‘principle of all principles’ on intuition, yet ultimately compensates for the lack of intuition with horizon and signification (intentionality), thus remaining stuck within the framework of objectivity/constitutive subjectivity. Marion redefines reduction not as a simple securing of consciousness’ immanence, but as a function of givenness, and proposes a third reduction:: “as much reduction, so much givenness.” This reduction goes beyond the conclusion to a pure self, revealing the self-givenness of phenomena themselves, unrestricted by prior grounds, causes, and conditions of possibility. The phenomenon is imposed upon the subject as the arrival of an unforeseeable event. In this way, Marion seeks to overturn the grounding order of metaphysics and open the horizon of non-objective phenomenality.

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