The Essential Writings / / Jean-Luc Marion; ed. by Kevin Hart.

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• VerfasserIn: Marion, Jean-Luc,
• MitwirkendeR: Hart, Kevin,
• HerausgeberIn: Hart, Kevin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (564 p.)

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 situates Marion in the hi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. METAPHYSICS AND ITS IDOLS
• The Marches of Metaphysics
• Double Idolatry
• II. 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
• III. READING DESCARTES
• The Ambivalence of Cartesian Metaphysics
• The Eternal Truths
• The Question of the Divine Names
• Does the Ego Alter the Other? Th e Solitude of the Cogito and the Absence of Alter Ego
• The Originary Otherness of the Ego: A Rereading of Descartes’s Second Meditation
• IV. 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
• V. 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