The Erotic Phenomenon - Rilegato

Marion, Jean-Luc

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ISBN 10: 0226505367 ISBN 13: 9780226505367

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2006

Riassunto

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 wordphilosophy means “love of wisdom,” but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. So where did the love go? InThe 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. We encounter being, he says, when we first experience love: I am loved, therefore I am; and this love is the reason I care whether I exist or not. This philosophical base allows Marion to probe several manifestations of love and its variations, including carnal excitement, self-hate, lying and perversion, fidelity, the generation of children, and the love of God. Throughout, Marion stresses that all erotic phenomena, including sentimentality, pornography, and even boasts about one’s sexual conquests, stem not from the ego as popularly understood but instead from love.

A thoroughly enlightening and captivating philosophical investigation of a strangely neglected subject,The Erotic Phenomenon is certain to initiate feverish new dialogue about the philosophical meanings of that most desirable and mysterious of all concepts—love.

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L'autore:

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, most recently,On Descartes’ Metaphysical Prism, also published by the University of Chicago Press.Stephen E. Lewis is assistant professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the translator of Jean-Luc Marion’sProlegomena to Charity and Jean-Louis Chrétien’s Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art.

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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0226505367
• ISBN 13: 9780226505367
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 230