· The Erotic Phenomenon by Jean-Luc Marion, Stephen E. Lewis (Translator) | Editorial Reviews. Paperback (New Edition) $ Hardcover. $ Paperback. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up . · But the most splendid explication of this from a philosophical perspective has recently been published -- Jean-Luc Marion's The Erotic Phenomenon (University of Chicago Press, ). Marion is a Roman Catholic layman and arguably the leadin St John the Theologian tells us -- twice in the fourth chapter of his first epistle (verses 8 and 16) that 'God is love.'4/5. In The Erotic Phenomenon, Jean-Luc Marion asks this fundamental question of philosophy, while reviving inquiry into the concept of love itself. Marion begins his profound and personal book with a critique of Descartes’ equation of the ego’s ability to doubt with the certainty that one exists—“I think, therefore I am”—arguing that this is worse than vain.
Jean-Luc Marion: Seeing from the point of view of God. The only real objection made to "The Erotic Phenomenon" was about the last five pages, when I say that there is only one way to love, and that we share it with God. The only difference between God and us is that God is much better at loving than we are. In The Erotic Phenomenon, Jean-Luc Marion attends to this dearth with an inquiry into the concept of love itself. 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. The Erotic Phenomenon. ( ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. English. By (author) Jean-Luc Marion, Translated by Stephen E. Lewis. Share. While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy means "love of wisdom," but the absence of love from.
Marion's avowed topic is the erotic phenomenon, and his method is phenomenology. He is a master of that method, and the result is an analysis of erotic love of unparalleled precision and depth. The depiction he gives of the erotic phenomenon is fundamentally convincing, and readers will find their own loves illuminated and questioned. But the erotic phenomenon can only occur when this aimless, unconditional love meets another similarly aimless, unconditional love and the two cross into an erotic reciprocality which, on Marion’s account, consists of mutual receptivity. Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July ) is a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian. The Erotic Phenomenon: Six Meditations, University of Chicago Press,
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