Reading Jean-Luc Marion Exceeding Metaphysics [Paperback]

The work of French philosopher and theologian Jean-Luc Marion has been recognized as among the most suggestive and productive in the philosophy of religion today. In Reading Marion, Christina M. Gschwandtner provides the first comprehensive introduction to Marion's large and conceptually dense corpus. Gschwandtner gives particular attention to Marion's early work on Descartes and follows thematic threads through to his most recent publications on charity and eroticism. She explores in detail three prominent topics in Marion's thought: the desire to overcome metaphysics, his reflections on the divine, and his reconsideration of the relation of the self to the other in love. Gschwandtner reveals Marion's thought as a unified whole and provides context for his theological and phenomenological writings. Readers at all levels will find insight into the work of one of the world's most provocative thinkers.

Christina M. Gschwandtner teaches philosophy at the University of Scranton. She is translator of Jean-Luc Marion's On the Ego and On God and The Visible and the Revealed.

Gschwandtner draws upon her own doctoral research at Depaul University to offer an articulate,wide-ranging and often compelling work which explores the connections between Marionsphenomenological concerns and his writing on Descartes.[This book is] sure to interest philosophers and theologians who follow Marion's project of liberating the thought of God, self, and world.

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Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part 1. The Constraints of Metaphysics
Introduction: This Theological Veering Which Is Too Obvious
1. Descartes and Metaphysics: Metaphysics Opens upon Its Modernity
2. Theology and Metaphysics: With Respect to Being Does God Have to Behave like Hamlet?
3. Phenomenology and Metaphysics: Unfolding the Fold of the Given
Part 2. A God of Excess
Introduction: To Pass Over to God's Point of View
4. Descartes and God: A Solitary... Abandonl3&