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The Visible and the Revealed
Jean-Luc Marion, Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner
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ISBN: 9780823228843 Book (Paperback) Fordham University Press 188 pages May 2008
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“Jean-Luc Marion has become an essential conversation partner for all serious
systematic theologians and philosophers of religion. Not to know his work, as presented
in the luminous essays of The Visible and the Revealed, is to have missed an important
connection in contemporary thought.” —Kevin Hart, University of Virginia In The Visible and the Revealed, Jean-Luc Marion brings together his most significant papers
dealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology. Covering the ground from
some of his earliest writings on this topic to very recent reflections, they are particularly
useful for understanding the progression of Marion’s thought on such topics as the saturated
phenomenon and the possibility of something like “Christian Philosophy.” The book contains
his seminal pieces on the saturated phenomenon and on the gift, although the essays also
explore more recent developments of his thought on these topics.
Several chapters explicitly explore the boundary line between philosophy and theology or
their mutual enrichment and influence. In one of the final pieces, “The Banality of Saturation,”
Marion considers some of the most recent objections brought against his notion of the
saturated phenomenon and responds to them in detail, suggesting that saturated phenomena
are neither as rare nor as inflexible as often assumed. The work contains two chapters not
previously available in English and brings together several other pieces previously translated
but now difficult to find. For readers interested in the relation between the two disciplines,
this is indispensable reading.
| JEAN-LUC MARION teaches philosophy at the Sorbonne and as John Nuveen Professor at the
Divinity School and Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. His other books
for Fordham include The Idol and Distance, Prolegomena to Charity, In Excess: Studies of
Saturated Phenomena, On the Ego and On God: Further Cartesian Questions, and, as co-author,
Phenomenology and the “Theological Turn”: The French Debate. |
| CHRISTINA M. GSCHWANDTNER teaches philosophy at the University of Scranton. |
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