L'ouverture a dieu. Jalons pour une anthropologie de la connaissance de dieu
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Abstract EN:
The anthropological background of faith is the presence of what is missing, that is desire. But desire can never lead to the knowledge of oneself. As an opening to god, desire can also be seen as opaqueness to god, hence the necessity to articulate revelation. The absolute manifests itself in revelation so much so that it is not man who opens himself to revelation but revelation which opens itself to man. Revelation spells out the beauty of the world, which allows one to conceive art not as an opening to god but as the conservation of such opening. But it is finally ethics which is opening through taking desire beyond itself, to such a point where one feels disquietened in front of another one who cannot be identified with anyone else.
Abstract FR:
L'horizon anthropologique de la foi est la presence de ce qui manque : le desir. Mais le desir n'accede jamais a la connaissance de soi. L'ouverture a dieu qu'est le desir est donc aussi bien la fermeture a dieu. D'ou la necessite de penser la revelation. L'absolu y est sa propre manifestation de sorte que ce n'est pas l'homme qui s'ouvre la revelation mais la revelation qui s'ouvre a l'homme. Son contenu est la beaute du monde, ce qui permet de penser l'art non pas comme ouverture a dieu, mais maintien dans l'ouverture. Mais c'est a l'ethique que revient d'etre l'ouverture a l'ouverture en portant le desir au-dela de lui-meme, jusqu'a l'inquietude devant un autre irreductible a tout autre.