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Jean-Luc Marion

Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Theology in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Docteur d'Etat (Université Paris - Sorbonne, Paris IV)

Jean-Luc Marion studies both the history of modern philosophy and contemporary phenomenology. In the former field, he has published several books on Descartes’ ontology, rational theology, and metaphysics, focusing especially on medieval sources and using modern patterns of interpretation (e.g., On Descartes’ Metaphysical Prism and Cartesian Questions). In the latter field, he is pursuing a long-term inquiry into the question of God, as in The Idol and Distance and God Without Being. Finally, he initiated a phenomenology of givenness in Reduction and Givenness. This was further developed in Being Given: An Essay on the Phenomenology of Givenness and In Excess: Studies on Saturated Phenomena. More recently he published The Erotic Phenomenon: les phénomènes saturés. Awarded with the 1992 Grand Prix du Philosophie de l’Académie Française, Professor Marion has also worked in the area of patristics; the history of medieval, classical, and modern philosophy; and on aesthetics.