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The Erotic Phenomenon
Jean-Luc Marion
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Description for The Erotic Phenomenon
Paperback. 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. Translator(s): Lewis, Stephen E. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
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 philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. 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 reason I care ... Read more
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 philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. 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 reason I care ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226505374
SKU
V9780226505374
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About Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV, and the John Nuveen Distinguished Professor in the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including On Descartes' Metaphysical Prism, also published by the University of Chicago ... Read more
Reviews for The Erotic Phenomenon
"Marion is doing the most interesting work in phenomenology today.... This is not a book about other books about love. It is patiently and carefully attentive to 'the things themselves,' and reads as an analysis that is at once rigorous and lyrical - attuned to both the concept and the caress." - Choice"