In Excess: Studies of Saturated Phenomena

In Excess: Studies of Saturated Phenomena is the third book in Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenological trilogy, which includes Reduction and Givenness and Being Given. Marion renews his argument for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh, and icon. With an eye turned more explicitly than ever before to hermeneutical dimensions of the debate, Marion masterfully draws together issues emerging from his close reading of Descartes and Pascal, Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas and Henry. Concluding with a revised version of his response to Derrida, "In the Name: How to Avoid Speaking of It," Marion powerfully rearticulates the theological possibilities of phenomenology. Flowing at a breathtaking pace, In Excess is Marion writing at his very best and readily illustrates why he has been described as one of the world's most important living philosophers.

Author: Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 01/01/2002
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780823222162

About the Author

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. More recently, Marion was elected to the Academie Francaise. 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, The Visible and the Revealed, and, as co-author, Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: The French Debate. Robyn Horner is Professor of Religion and Theology at Monash University in Australia.