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The essential writings /

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." The editor's long general Introduction situat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946-
Other Authors: Hart, Kevin, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
RELIGION / Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction by Kevin Hart
  • I. Metaphysics and Its Idols
  • Introduction
  • The Marches of Metaphysics
  • Double Idolatry
  • II. Saturation, Gift, and Icon Introduction
  • 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
  • III. Reading Descartes
  • Introduction
  • The Ambivalence of Cartesian Metaphysics
  • The Eternal Truths
  • The Question of the Divine Names
  • Does the Ego Alter the Other?
  • The Originary Otherness of the Ego
  • IV. Revelation and Apophasis
  • Introduction
  • The Prototype and the Image
  • Thomas Aquinas and Onto-Theology
  • The Possible and Revelation
  • What Cannot Be Said
  • The Impossible for Man-God
  • V. On Love and Sacrifice
  • Introduction
  • The Intentionality of Love
  • Concerning the Lover, and His Advance
  • The Creation of the Self
  • Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice
  • Notes
  • Index.