Sobre "las fronteras de la racionalidad": discípulos de la distancia y las necesidades de la razón

Resumen

This article, drawing on D’ailleurs, la révélation, argues that the student constitutes a revelatory figure: one who receives what comes from beyond the limits of understanding and is transformed by it. In critical dialogue with Descartes and Kant, the paper shows that what appears as contradiction to a reason confined to its own limits—the thing itself, the unconditioned—can be given as paradox to the student of distance. Whereas critical philosophy responds to the excessive needs of reason by means of objectless ideals, Marion maintains that the paradoxes themselves are given and overwhelm with meaning. The resulting phenomenology restores to things their initiative to appear and situates thought in a space where rational needs are promoted not ideally but through revelations that configure the one who learns.