Abstract

GARCIA LABRADOR, Julián  and  VINOLO, Stéphane. Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Marion. The Event and the Margins of Metaphysics. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2019, n.57, pp.207-234. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i57.1060.

The notion of “event” is often used, in contemporary phi- losophy, as a way to overcome the end of metaphysics since it challenges both the metaphysical conditions of appearing and knowing. Thanks to a comparative analysis of the works of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Marion, the authors show that even though the event appears as a questioning of the modern concept of history in the texts of the former, and as a modality of saturated phenomena in the Marion’s phenomenology of given- ness, its use allows us to re-evaluate the relationship of both phi- losophers with metaphysics. After pointing out a fundamental difference of the conception of the event in Arendt and Marion, it is then possible to reveal their position regarding the possibil- ity of thinking after the end of metaphysics.

Keywords : Arendt; etiology; event; Marion; Metaphysics.