J Schrijvers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1003242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Schrijvers |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schrijvers |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRIJVERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2266-9106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1910 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reiner Schürmann and (Onto)Theology
This article explores Schürmann’s relation to religion and theology. Since the publication of his early essays in Ways of Releasement (2023), Schürmann scholarship will find new ways to think about Schürmann’s troubled relation to religion. This article will name some significant traits that surface in these early papers: First, Schürmann’s sense for the mystery, which will, however, quickly vanish from his thinking. Second, the growing influence…
Van wereld naar aarde
Keeping Up with Caputo: Of Specters and Spooks-Transcendence and Happiness in Caputo's Radical Theology
This essay serves two purposes. First, it wants to introduce readers to John D. Caputo's Radical Theology by way of his recent Specters of God (2022) in which his radical theology truly comes to fruition. The essay provides in this introduction through elucidating this recent work and by pointing to earlier discussions of similar themes and figures in Caputo's corpus. It will be shown that Caputo's work is a genuine contemporary search for transc…
Phenomenology Out of Bounds? Jean-Yves Lacoste's Phenomenology and the Presence of God
This article articulates Jean-Yves Lacoste's account of phenomenology. It does so by tracing Lacoste's relation to Husserl. Although the influence of Heidegger on Lacoste's thinking has been sufficiently studied, his relation to the father of phenomenology perhaps is not. The aim of this essay is to see whether Lacoste's practice of phenomenology still qualifies as phenomenology proper or whether, as some might be inclined to think, it is an impr…
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology
This essay joins the ongoing conversation comparing the thought of Bruno Latour to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of technology in particular and the phenomenological tradition in general. The article queries whether or not there is a metaphysics at work in Latour’s philosophy and, if so, whether this metaphysics would be at a sufficient distance from what Heidegger labelled as ontotheology, “grasping” and “comprehending” being and beings in its t…
Passing Time: Bruno Latour’s Challenge to Philosophy
Metamorphosis or Mutation: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity
Jean-Luc Nancy’s Deconstruction of Christianity views the current crisis of globalization as a mutation of our Christian culture and heritage. After outlining the basic premises of Nancy’s philosophy, this article situates Jacques Derrida’s critique of Nancy in his groundbreaking On Touching: whereas Nancy sees contemporary culture as a rupture (or indeed mutation) with the former Christian culture, Derrida argues that we are still dealing with t…
Jean-Yves Lacoste’s thesis on truth
An Introduction to Jean-Yves Lacoste
Introducing the thought of philosopher and theologian Jean-Yves Lacoste, this book provides an overview spanning Lacoste's earliest works on sacramentality to his latest work Etre en Danger (2011) in which Lacoste opens up the liturgical experience onto a spiritual experience of life. Schrijvers unfolds the logic of what Lacoste calls 'the liturgical experience' from its violent variety in Expérience et Absolu to the logic of love and love's poss…
Thinking Despite Everything? On Unknowing God, and the Common Concerns of Philosophy and Theology
Refuge 30.1 (General Issue) Print Copy
This is an accessible copy of issue 30.1. It was certified by a CPWA-certified accessibility professional as meeting or exceeding all accessibility conformance requirements with respect to: WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA PDF/UA (David Berman Communications 13 October, 2025)
Interpreting Excess: Jean‐Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics – By Shane Mackinlay
Freeing yourself towards Your Own Being-Free. Jean-Luc Nancy on the Metaphysics of Freedom
In this article, a close study of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Experience of Freedom is offered. After presenting the book’s main argument, i.e. a non-metaphysical thinking of freedom, we turn to the question of subjectivity and freedom in relation to the eventfulness of freedom itself. The article closes by questioning certain surprising tendencies in Nancy’s work. So, for instance, one might note a return of the concept of destiny (and therefore of a c…
Marion, Levinas, and Heidegger on the question concerning ontotheology
In (The) Place of the Self: A Critical Study of Jean‐luc Marion's “Au Lieu De Soi. l'APPROCHE De Saint Augustin” 1
This review article discusses Jean‐Luc Marion's latest book Au lieu de soi. L'approche de Saint‐Augustin , in which Marion lets the theology and phenomenology of givenness interact with Augustine's œuvre. The article provides an extensive summary of Marion's book and offers a critical analysis by linking Au lieu de soi to Marion's earlier work. Apart from this, this review hopes to open some parallels with the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean‐Yv…
Ontotheological Turnings? Marion, Lacoste and Levinas on the Decentring of Modern Subjectivity
In this article, Schrijvers examines the decentering of the modern subject at issue in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean‐Luc Marion, and Jean‐Yves Lacoste from the perspective of ontotheology. Schrijvers contends that in both Marion's and Lacoste's phenomenology an unexpected return to the subject‐object distinction occurs, and asks whether a simple reversal of the subject‐object distinction suffices to break out of the ontotheological scheme…
Fighters, Victims and Survivors: Constructions of Ethnicity, Gender and Refugeeness among Tamils in Sri Lanka
The focus of this article is the interplay of ethnicity and gender, in particular as reflected in the changing discourses of 'Tamil womanhood' in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a country torn apart by a prolonged civil war between the government and the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant group fighting for a Tamil 'homeland' in the north and east of the country. Two extreme images of Tamil women have emerged: (1) aggressive women soldi…
Handbook of Practical Economics
Fighters, Victims and Survivors: Constructions of Ethnicity, Gender and Refugeeness among Tamils in Sri Lanka
The focus of this article is the interplay of ethnicity and gender, in particular as reflected in the changing discourses of 'Tamil womanhood' in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a country torn apart by a prolonged civil war between the government and the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant group fighting for a Tamil 'homeland' in the north and east of the country. Two extreme images of Tamil women have emerged: (1) aggressive women soldi…
Passing Time: Bruno Latour’s Challenge to Philosophy
Handbook of Practical Economics
Fighters, Victims and Survivors: Constructions of Ethnicity, Gender and Refugeeness among Tamils in Sri Lanka
The focus of this article is the interplay of ethnicity and gender, in particular as reflected in the changing discourses of 'Tamil womanhood' in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a country torn apart by a prolonged civil war between the government and the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant group fighting for a Tamil 'homeland' in the north and east of the country. Two extreme images of Tamil women have emerged: (1) aggressive women soldi…
Ontotheological Turnings? Marion, Lacoste and Levinas on the Decentring of Modern Subjectivity
In this article, Schrijvers examines the decentering of the modern subject at issue in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean‐Luc Marion, and Jean‐Yves Lacoste from the perspective of ontotheology. Schrijvers contends that in both Marion's and Lacoste's phenomenology an unexpected return to the subject‐object distinction occurs, and asks whether a simple reversal of the subject‐object distinction suffices to break out of the ontotheological scheme…
In (The) Place of the Self: A Critical Study of Jean‐luc Marion's “Au Lieu De Soi. l'APPROCHE De Saint Augustin” 1
This review article discusses Jean‐Luc Marion's latest book Au lieu de soi. L'approche de Saint‐Augustin , in which Marion lets the theology and phenomenology of givenness interact with Augustine's œuvre. The article provides an extensive summary of Marion's book and offers a critical analysis by linking Au lieu de soi to Marion's earlier work. Apart from this, this review hopes to open some parallels with the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean‐Yv…
Marion, Levinas, and Heidegger on the question concerning ontotheology
Interpreting Excess: Jean‐Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics – By Shane Mackinlay
Freeing yourself towards Your Own Being-Free. Jean-Luc Nancy on the Metaphysics of Freedom
In this article, a close study of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Experience of Freedom is offered. After presenting the book’s main argument, i.e. a non-metaphysical thinking of freedom, we turn to the question of subjectivity and freedom in relation to the eventfulness of freedom itself. The article closes by questioning certain surprising tendencies in Nancy’s work. So, for instance, one might note a return of the concept of destiny (and therefore of a c…
Refuge 30.1 (General Issue) Print Copy
This is an accessible copy of issue 30.1. It was certified by a CPWA-certified accessibility professional as meeting or exceeding all accessibility conformance requirements with respect to: WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA PDF/UA (David Berman Communications 13 October, 2025)
Thinking Despite Everything? On Unknowing God, and the Common Concerns of Philosophy and Theology
An Introduction to Jean-Yves Lacoste
Introducing the thought of philosopher and theologian Jean-Yves Lacoste, this book provides an overview spanning Lacoste's earliest works on sacramentality to his latest work Etre en Danger (2011) in which Lacoste opens up the liturgical experience onto a spiritual experience of life. Schrijvers unfolds the logic of what Lacoste calls 'the liturgical experience' from its violent variety in Expérience et Absolu to the logic of love and love's poss…
Jean-Yves Lacoste’s thesis on truth
Metamorphosis or Mutation: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity
Jean-Luc Nancy’s Deconstruction of Christianity views the current crisis of globalization as a mutation of our Christian culture and heritage. After outlining the basic premises of Nancy’s philosophy, this article situates Jacques Derrida’s critique of Nancy in his groundbreaking On Touching: whereas Nancy sees contemporary culture as a rupture (or indeed mutation) with the former Christian culture, Derrida argues that we are still dealing with t…
Gaia and ontotheology – Latour, Heidegger and the debate with phenomenology
This essay joins the ongoing conversation comparing the thought of Bruno Latour to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of technology in particular and the phenomenological tradition in general. The article queries whether or not there is a metaphysics at work in Latour’s philosophy and, if so, whether this metaphysics would be at a sufficient distance from what Heidegger labelled as ontotheology, “grasping” and “comprehending” being and beings in its t…
Passing Time: Bruno Latour’s Challenge to Philosophy
Van wereld naar aarde
Keeping Up with Caputo: Of Specters and Spooks-Transcendence and Happiness in Caputo's Radical Theology
This essay serves two purposes. First, it wants to introduce readers to John D. Caputo's Radical Theology by way of his recent Specters of God (2022) in which his radical theology truly comes to fruition. The essay provides in this introduction through elucidating this recent work and by pointing to earlier discussions of similar themes and figures in Caputo's corpus. It will be shown that Caputo's work is a genuine contemporary search for transc…
Phenomenology Out of Bounds? Jean-Yves Lacoste's Phenomenology and the Presence of God
This article articulates Jean-Yves Lacoste's account of phenomenology. It does so by tracing Lacoste's relation to Husserl. Although the influence of Heidegger on Lacoste's thinking has been sufficiently studied, his relation to the father of phenomenology perhaps is not. The aim of this essay is to see whether Lacoste's practice of phenomenology still qualifies as phenomenology proper or whether, as some might be inclined to think, it is an impr…
Reiner Schürmann and (Onto)Theology
This article explores Schürmann’s relation to religion and theology. Since the publication of his early essays in Ways of Releasement (2023), Schürmann scholarship will find new ways to think about Schürmann’s troubled relation to religion. This article will name some significant traits that surface in these early papers: First, Schürmann’s sense for the mystery, which will, however, quickly vanish from his thinking. Second, the growing influence…
Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (8 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art (3 works)