Jean-Luc Marion
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Jean-Luc Marion (b. 1946) is among the best-known living philosophers in France.
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[edit] Life
Marion was born in Meudon, France, in 1946. He married in 1970 and has two sons. Marion studied at the University of Nanterre (now the University Paris X – Nanterre) and the Sorbonne and then did graduate work in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he studied with Jacques Derrida and Louis Althusser. After receiving his doctorate in 1980, he began teaching at the University of Poitiers. From there he moved to become the Director of Philosophy at the University Paris X – Nanterre. In 1996 he became Director of Philosophy at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne). He is currently the John Nuveen Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought at the same university.
[edit] Works in English
- God Without Being, University of Chicago Press, 1991.
- Reduction and Givenness: Investigations of Husserl, Heidegger and Phenomenology, Northwestern University Press, 1998.
- Cartesian Questions: Method and Metaphysics, University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- On Descartes' Metaphysical Prism: The Constitution and the Limits of Onto-theo-logy in Cartesian Thought, University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- The Idol and Distance: Five Studies, Fordham University Press, 2001.
- Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness, Stanford University Press, 2002.
- In Excess: Studies of Saturated Phenomena, Fordham University Press, 2002.
- Prolegomena to Charity, Fordham University Press, 2002.
- The Crossing of the Visible, Stanford University Press, 2004.
- Descartes' Grey Ontology: Cartesian Science and Aristotelian Thought in the Regulae, St. Augustine's Press, 2006.
- The Erotic Phenomenon: Six Meditations, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
[edit] Books in English on Marion
- Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion, Ian Leask and Eoin G. Cassidy, eds., Fordham University Press, 2005
- Jean-Luc Marion: A Theo-logical Introduction, Robyn Horner, Ashgate, 2005.
