{"product_id":"the-erotic-phenomenon-paperback","title":"The Erotic Phenomenon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Luc Marion\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen E. Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word \u003ci\u003ephilosophy \u003c\/i\u003emeans \"love of wisdom,\" but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. In \u003ci\u003eThe Erotic Phenomenon, \u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Luc Marion attends to this dearth with an inquiry into the concept of love itself.\u003cbr\u003e 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 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 stem not from the ego as popularly understood but instead from love.\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \"Marion's avowed topic is the erotic phenomenon, and his method is phenomenology. He is a master of that method, and the result is an analysis of erotic love of unparalleled precision and depth. The depiction he gives of the erotic phenomenon is fundamentally convincing, and readers will find their own loves illuminated and questioned.\"--\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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 word \u003ci\u003ephilosophy \u003c\/i\u003emeans \"love of wisdom,\" but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. So where did the love go? In \u003ci\u003eThe Erotic Phenomenon, \u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Luc Marion asks this fundamental question of philosophy, while reviving inquiry into the concept of love itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarion 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thoroughly enlightening and captivating philosophical investigation of a strangely neglected subject, \u003ci\u003eThe Erotic Phenomenon \u003c\/i\u003eis certain to initiate feverish new dialogue about the philosophical meanings of that most desirable and mysterious of all concepts--love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Luc Marion \u003c\/b\u003eis 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, \u003ci\u003eOn Descartes' Metaphysical Prism, \u003c\/i\u003e also published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cb\u003eStephen E. Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the translator of Jean-Luc Marion's \u003ci\u003eProlegomena to Charity\u003c\/i\u003e and Jean-Louis Chrétien's \u003ci\u003eHand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.92 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531574169644,"sku":"9780226505374","price":58.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/eilq-_D8LF9780226505374.webp?v=1793332267","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/the-erotic-phenomenon-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}