Background
Marion, Jean-Luc P. was born on July 3, 1946 in Meudon, France. Son of Jean Marion and Suzanne Roussey.
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Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world’s foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In God Without Being, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics: that God, before all else, must be. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance and engaging in passionate dialogue with Heidegger, he locates a “God without Being” in the realm of agape, or Christian charity and love. If God is love, Marion contends, then God loves before he actually is. First translated into English in 1991, God Without Being continues to be a key book for discussions of the nature of God. This second edition contains a new preface by Marion as well as his 2003 essay on Thomas Aquinas. Offering a controversial, contemporary perspective, God Without Being will remain essential reading for scholars and students of philosophy and religion. “Daring and profound. . . . In matters most central to his thesis, [Marion]’s control is admirable, and his attunement to the nuances of other major postmodern thinkers is impressive.”—Theological Studies “A truly remarkable work.”—First Things “Very rewarding reading.”—Religious Studies Review
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( Jean-Luc Marion advances a controversial argument for a...)
Jean-Luc Marion advances a controversial argument for a God free of all categories of Being. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of both metaphysics and neo-Thomist theology: that God, before all else, must be. Rather, he locates a "God without Being" in the realm of agape, of Christian charity or love. This volume, the first translation into English of the work of this leading Catholic philosopher, offers a contemporary perspective on the nature of God. "An immensely thoughtful book. . . . It promises a rich harvest. Marion's highly original treatment of the idol and the icon, the Eucharist, boredom and vanity, conversion and prayer takes theological and philosophical discussions to a new level."--Norman Wirzba, Christian Century
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God Without Being: Hors-Texte (Religion and Postmodernism Series) [Paperback]Jean-Luc Marion (Author) , Thomas A. Carlson (Translator)
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Through careful analysis of phenomenological texts by Husserl and Heidegger, Marion argues for the necessity of a third phenomenological reduction that concerns what is fully implied but left largely unthought by the phenomenologies of both Husserl and Heidegger: the unconditional "givenness" of the phenomenon. At once historically grounded and radically new, this phenomenology of givenness has revitalized phenomenological debate in Europe and the U.S.
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Along with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Being Given is one of the classic works of phenomenology in the twentieth century. Through readings of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, and twentieth-century French phenomenology (e.g., Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Henry), it ventures a bold and decisive reappraisal of phenomenology and its possibilities. Its author's most original work to date, the book pushes phenomenology to its limits in an attempt to redefine and recover the phenomenological ideal, which the author argues has never been realized in any of the historical phenomenologies. Against Husserl's reduction to consciousness and Heidegger's reduction to Dasein, the author proposes a third reduction to givenness, wherein phenomena appear unconditionally and show themselves from themselves at their own initiative. Being Given is the clearest, most systematic response to questions that have occupied its author for the better part of two decades. The book articulates a powerful set of concepts that should provoke new research in philosophy, religion, and art, as well as at the intersection of these disciplines. Some of the significant issues it treats include the phenomenological definition of the phenomenon, the redefinition of the gift in terms not of economy but of givenness, the nature of saturated phenomena, and the question "Who comes after the subject?" Throughout his consideration of these issues, the author carefully notes their significance for the increasingly popular fields of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Being Given is therefore indispensable reading for anyone interested in the question of the relation between the phenomenological and the theological in Marion and emergent French phenomenology.
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Marion, Jean-Luc P. was born on July 3, 1946 in Meudon, France. Son of Jean Marion and Suzanne Roussey.
Doctorat 3d cycle, Sorbonne, Paris, 1974. Doctorat d'etat, Sorbonne, Paris, 1980.
Professor philosophy Poitiers (France) University, 1981—1988, University Paris-Nanterre, 1988—1994, University Paris-Sorbonne, since 1995. Editor-in-chief Epimetheon, since 1981. Member board Les Etudes Philosophiques, since 1995.
Visiting professor philosophy University Chicago, since 1992. Chair Ecole Doctorale Concepts et Langages University Paris Sorbonne, since 1999.
( Through careful analysis of phenomenological texts by H...)
( Along with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Ti...)
( Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world’s foremost philoso...)
(God Without Being: Hors-Texte (Religion and Postmodernism...)
( Jean-Luc Marion advances a controversial argument for a...)
Jean-Luc Marion has two specialist study areas, the interpretation of Descartes in the light of poststructuralist and phenomenological philosophy and the elaboration of a postmodern theology. These are brought together through a critique of Descartes’s metaphysical definitions of God from the standpoint of a theology based on divine revelation. For Marion, revelation is the only possible basis for a theology in the postmodern world.
Reason can only provide us with a God as ‘idol’ and not a God as 'icon'. Philosophy and theology must therefore move away from metaphysics and towards phenomenological experiences such as charity. Jean-Luc Marion is important in contemporary poststructuralist and phenomenological work on theology and the divine, in particular where his work crosses that of Derrida and Levinas.
Married Corinne Nicolas, April 4, 1970. Children: Donys, Gregoire.