Essential Writings

Name: Essential Writings
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ISBN: 9780823251063

ISBN-10: 0823251063

ISBN-13: 9780823251063

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jean-Luc Marion, Kevin Hart

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Jean-Luc Marion: The Essential Writings is the first anthology of this major contemporary philosopher's writings. It spans his entire career as a historian of philosophy, as a theologian, and as a theoretician of "saturated phenomena." This "reader" has a long introduction, written by the editor, that seeks to situate Marion in the history of modern philosophy, especially phenomenology, as well as shorter introduction to each section of the anthology. This book enables professors and teachers to teach Jean-Luc Marion by setting just the one book, and the long general introduction allows students to get up to speed with phenomenology in order to read Marion without having to take preliminary…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 7/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 564
Size: 7.05" wide x 10.04" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.156
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.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Metaphysics and Its Idols


The Marches of Metaphysics


Double Idolatry



Saturation, Gift, and Icon


The Breakthrough and the Broadening


Sketch of the Saturated Phenomenon


The Banality of Saturation


The Reason of the Gift


The Icon or the Endless Hermeneutic



Reading Descartes


The Ambivalence of Cartesian Metaphysics


The Eternal Truths


The Question of the Divine Names


Does the Ego Alter the Other? The Solitude of the Cogito and the Absence of Alter Ego


The Originary Otherness of the Ego: A Rereading of Descartes's Second Meditation



Revelation and Apophasis The Prototype and the Image


Thomas Aquinas and Onto-theo-logy


The Possible and Revelation


What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love


The Impossible for Man-God



On Love and Sacrifice


The Intentionality of Love


Concerning the Lover, and His Advance


The Creation of the Self


Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice


Notes


Name Index


General Index