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Alvis](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ## Stanford University, University of Vienna, University of Denver 6 Posts | website --- ![The Political as Saturated Phenomenon: Marion’s Givenness and the Irreconcilability of Politics and Love.](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### **The Political as Saturated Phenomenon: Marion’s Givenness and the Irreconcilability of Politics and Love.** Liebe deinen Nächsten. Love your neighbor. The 2013 FPÖ candidate for chancellor of Austria, H.C. Strache, was sharply criticized for the politicization of the command of love in the service of a political agenda that insinuated the governmental [Learn More](/archives/17.2/alvis/) ![The Dark Side of God: a Case for Inconspicuous Givenness.](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### **The Dark Side of God: a Case for Inconspicuous Givenness.** The article discusses the paradoxical relation between darkness and light and between presence and absence that is said to have reached its highest potential and challenge in the question of the givenness of God to thought and mentions related issues like Phaeithein, metaphysics, and ontotheology. 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