Matías Pizzi, Fenomenología del exceso. (Post Visión), SB, 2024, 292 pp. ISBN 978-631-6503-72-5

Abstract

The debate on language crosses the nouvelle phénoménologie, from the auto-affection with which Michel Henry confronts objectifying speech, passing through the poetics of the event in Jean-Louis Chrétien and the liturgy in Jean-Yves Lacoste, to the ontology of manifestation in Renaud Barbaras. Within this framework, saying and silencing becomes the place in which the possibility of the phenomenon is at stake. Jean-Luc Marion responded with a doxological proposal that attempts a discourse of praise and, later, a language of absence to name phenomena that manifest themselves in excess, the so-called saturated ones. In doing so, he opened a trail that now welcomes studies on the pragmatics of donation and the semantics of overabundance. Read from the standpoint of theology, this development suggests that phenomenological language approaches traits of faith such as doxology, prayer and apophatic theology, where the word does not capture what is given but rather hosts its excess and receives it as gift. Marion’s work is among the most influential in the current french scene, and it opens with the notion of revelation and with the liturgical performativity of saying.