Erotic Phenomenon

Name: Erotic Phenomenon
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ISBN: 9780226505374

ISBN-10: 0226505375

ISBN-13: 9780226505374

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jean-Luc Marion, Stephen E. Lewis

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While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The wordphilosophymeans “love of wisdom,” but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. InThe Erotic Phenomenon,Jean-Luc Marion attends to this dearth with an inquiry into the concept of love itself. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Marion begins with a critique of Descartes’ equation of the ego’s ability to doubt with the certainty that one exists. We encounter love, he says, when we first step forward as a lover: I love therefore I am, and my love is the reason I care whether I exist or not. This philosophical base…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Jean-Luc Marion is professor of philosophy at the Universitï¿½ Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), and the John Nuveen Distinguished Professor in the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.



Translator's Acknowledgments The Silence of Love Concerning a Radical Reduction



Doubting Certainty



""What's the Use?""



The Erotic Reduction



The World According to Vanity



Space



Time



Ipseity Concerning Every Man for Himself, and His Self-Hatred



Separation and Contradiction



The Impossibility of a Love of Self



The Illusion of Persevering in One's Being



Whether I Will It or Not



Self-Hatred



The Passage to