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Jean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new book¿his deepest engagement with theology to date¿Marion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key. Although today considered the central theme of theology, the concept of Revelation was almost entirely unknown to the first millennium of Christian thought. In a penetrating historical deconstruct...

Jean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new book¿his deepest engagement with theology to date¿Marion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key. Although today considered the central theme of theology, the concept of Revelation was almost entirely unknown to the first millennium of Christian thought. In a penetrating historical deconstruct...

Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty. In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple--but profoundly provocative--q...

This short, accessible volume by one of France's leading philosophers provides insight into what "catholic"--in the sense of universal or all-embracing--truly means, and how this might relates to being a Catholic in the present moment. Jean-Luc Marion tackles complex issues surrounding secularism and what is often framed as a tension or conflict between "Islam and the West, " focusing on the situation in France but addressing a larger Catholic...

This short, accessible volume by one of France's leading philosophers provides insight into what "catholic"--in the sense of universal or all-embracing--truly means, and how this might relates to being a Catholic in the present moment. Jean-Luc Marion tackles complex issues surrounding secularism and what is often framed as a tension or conflict between "Islam and the West, " focusing on the situation in France but addressing a larger Catholic...

This represents a continuation of Jean-Luc Marion's work on givenness as a foundational concept. A former student of Jacques Derrida, Marion is known for his work in seventeenth-century French philosophy, for his theory of "God without being”, and for his reformulation of phenomenology. Marion's groundbreaking work on givenness is articulated through attentive readings in a striking array of philosophical texts.

In seven essays that draw from metaphysics, phenomenology, literature, Christological theology, and Biblical exegesis, Marion sketches several prolegomena to a future fuller thinking and saying of love's paradoxical reasons, exploring evil, freedom, bedazzlement, and the loving gaze, crisis, absence, and knowing.

Originally published as Certitudes naegatives. A Editions Grasset & Fasquelle"--Title page verso.

While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love. The word "philosophy "means "love of wisdom, " but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. So where did the love go? In "The Erotic Phenomenon, " Jean-Luc Marion asks this fundamental question of philosophy, while rev...

While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. This book offers an inquiry into the concept of love itself.