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Jean-Yves Lacoste’s thesis on truth

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This essay offers a commentary of Jean-Yves Lacoste’s most recent book Théses sur le vrai (2018). It does so through a close reading of the book’s main arguments and through relating this most recent work to Lacoste’s earlier thinking. Lacoste here offers a new introduction to his body of work by elaborating on the phenomenological experience of truth. Truth, Lacoste argues, is first and foremost experienced in experiences of newness and in experiences offered through poetry. These experiences show and manifest the truth as “unexpected.” Such a surprise, for Lacoste, can be read as a secular translation of what theology calls the “good news.” The book concludes with new insights in Lacoste’s thinking of the relation between philosophy and theology.

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Notes

  1. A translation of this book has recently appeared: see Lacoste (2018b). For a survey of translations and secondary literature on Lacoste’s work, see Schrijvers (2015).

  2. Lacoste (2018a, p. 185 and p. 174 respectively).

  3. Cf. Ibid., p. 123.

  4. E.g. Ibid., p. 185.

  5. Ibid., p. 178.

  6. Ibid., p. 179.

  7. Ibid., p. 178.

  8. Lacoste (2015b, p. 97-124).

  9. Ibid., p. 103.

  10. Reference here is to Lacoste’s definition of Heidegger’s Schuldigsein, “we owe it to ourselves to become ourselves” in Lacoste (2011, p. 201). For an analysis of this book, see Schrijvers (2012, p. 157-190).

  11. Lacoste (2015b, p.114).

  12. Lacoste (2018a, p. 10).

  13. Lacoste (2015a, p. 263).

  14. Cf. Lacoste (2018a, p. 11).

  15. Lacoste (2015a, p. 61).

  16. Ibid., p. 115-118.

  17. Lacoste (2018a, p. 21).

  18. Ibid., p. 26.

  19. Lacoste (2006, p. 120).

  20. Lacoste (2018a, p. 25).

  21. Cf. Lacoste (2006, p. 117).

  22. Cf. Lacoste (2015a, p. 46).

  23. Lacoste (2018a, p. 27).

  24. Lacoste (2018a, p. 32).

  25. Lacoste (2008, pp. 133–157; 2006, pp. 159–177).

  26. Lacoste (2018a, p. 33).

  27. Cf. Lacoste (2015a, p. 208).

  28. Ibid., p. 49.

  29. Ibid., p. 262.

  30. Lacoste (2011, p. 92).

  31. Lacoste (2015a, p. 197).

  32. Ibid., p. 43 and p. 157.

  33. Lacoste (2011, p. 51-55).

  34. Lacoste (2018a, p. 44).

  35. Ibid., p. 46.

  36. Ibid., p. 47.

  37. Ibid., p. 47 and 49.

  38. Ibid., p. 48.

  39. Ibid., p. 50.

  40. Lacoste (2006, p. 301).

  41. Lacoste (2018a, p. 54).

  42. Ibid., p. 55.

  43. Ibid., p. 61.

  44. Ibid., p. 61.

  45. Ibid., p. 83.

  46. Ibid., p. 62.

  47. Ibid., p. 71.

  48. Ibid, p. 68.

  49. Lacoste (2015c, p. 2).

  50. Lacoste (2018a, p. 74).

  51. Ibid., p. 75.

  52. Lacoste (2015c, p. 2).

  53. Lacoste (2018a, p. 73).

  54. E.g. Lacoste (2006, p. 248ff).

  55. Lacoste (2015c, p. 2; Cf. 2018a, p. 141).

  56. Lacoste (2018a, p. 56 and p. 88).

  57. Ibid., p. 93.

  58. Cf. Ibid., p. 86.

  59. Ibid., p. 88.

  60. Ibid., p. 88.

  61. Ibid., p. 89.

  62. Ibid., p. 89.

  63. Ibid., p. 65.

  64. Ibid., p. 93.

  65. Ibid., p. 54.

  66. Ibid., p. 95.

  67. Ibid., p. 102.

  68. Ibid., p. 104.

  69. Ibid., p. 104.

  70. Ibid., p. 104 and p. 105 respectively.

  71. Ibid., p. 104 and see Lacoste (2000, pp. 57–106).

  72. Ibid., p. 106.

  73. Ibid., p. 106.

  74. Lacoste (2009, p. 145).

  75. Lacoste (2018a, p. 106).

  76. Ibid., p. 109, also p. 135ff.

  77. Ibid., p. 111.

  78. Ibid., p. 111.

  79. Cf. Ibid., p. 109 (leaving Heidegger) and p. 112 for the quote.

  80. Lacoste (2015a, p. 150).

  81. Lacoste (2018a, p. 124).

  82. Cf. Ibid., p. 121.

  83. Ibid., p. 119.

  84. Ibid., p. 115.

  85. Cf. Ibid., p. 64 and p. 68.

  86. Cf. Ibid., p. 127.

  87. Lacoste (2015a, p. 223).

  88. Lacoste (2018a, p. 117 and p. 120).

  89. Ibid., p. 120.

  90. Ibid., p. 121.

  91. Ibid., p. 123.

  92. Ibid., p. 123.

  93. Ibid., p. 117.

  94. Ibid., p. 125.

  95. Ibid., p. 126.

  96. Ibid., p. 124.

  97. Ibid., p. 125.

  98. Ibid., p. 125-126.

  99. Ibid., p. 126.

  100. Ibid., p. 131.

  101. Ibid., p. 128.

  102. Ibid., p. 130.

  103. Ibid., p. 131.

  104. Ibid., p. 132.

  105. Ibid., p. 133.

  106. Ibid., p. 76.

  107. Ibid., p. 134.

  108. Ibid., p. 136.

  109. Ibid., p. 140.

  110. Ibid., p. 143 and p.145 respectively.

  111. Ibid., p. 139 and p. 145.

  112. Ibid., p. 145.

  113. Ibid., p. 145.

  114. Ibid., p. 146.

  115. Ibid., p. 150.

  116. Ibid., p. 151.

  117. Ibid., p. 155.

  118. Ibid., p. 155.

  119. Ibid., p. 155.

  120. Ibid., p. 155.

  121. Ibid., p. 156.

  122. Lacoste (2006, p. 332).

  123. Lacoste (2018a, p. 157).

  124. Ibid., p. 157.

  125. Ibid., p. 157.

  126. Ibid., p. 158.

  127. Ibid., p. 160.

  128. Ibid., p. 161.

  129. Ibid., p. 161.

  130. Ibid., p. 161.

  131. Ibid., p. 162 and p. 163.

  132. Lacoste (2015a, p. 156).

  133. Lacoste (2015c, p. 3).

  134. Ibid., p. 3.

  135. Lacoste (2018a, p. 163).

  136. Lacoste (2015a, p. 161).

  137. Ibid., p. 258.

  138. Ibid., p. 250 and p. 256.

  139. Lacoste (2018a, p. 169).

  140. Ibid., p. 170.

  141. Ibid., p. 170.

  142. Ibid., p. 170.

  143. Ibid., p. 171.

  144. Ibid., p. 173.

  145. Ibid., p. 175.

  146. Ibid., p. 175.

  147. Lacoste (2015a, p. 279).

  148. Ibid., p. 284.

  149. Lacoste (2006, p. 78).

  150. Lacoste (2015a, p. 285).

  151. Ibid., p. 283.

  152. Lacoste (2009, p. 150).

  153. Lacoste (2018a, p. 177).

  154. Ibid., p. 177.

  155. Ibid., p. 177.

  156. Ibid., p. 177.

  157. Ibid., p. 180.

  158. Ibid., p. 181.

  159. Ibid., p. 183.

  160. Ibid., p. 184.

  161. Ibid., p. 184.

  162. Ibid., p. 185.

  163. Ibid., p. 185.

  164. Ibid., p. 186.

  165. Ibid., p. 188.

  166. Ibid., p. 191-192.

  167. Ibid., p. 194.

  168. Ibid., p. 194.

  169. Ibid., p. 195.

  170. Lacoste (2014, 87).

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Schrijvers, J. Jean-Yves Lacoste’s thesis on truth. Cont Philos Rev 53, 487–510 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-020-09498-6

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