Jean-Luc Marion
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3 July 1946 Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Phenomenology |
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Main interests
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Philosophical theology, phenomenology, Descartes |
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Notable ideas
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"As much reduction, as much givenness," saturated phenomenon, the intentionality of love |
Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is a French postmodern philosopher. Marion is a former student of Jacques Derrida whose work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy. Much of his academic work has dealt with Descartes and phenomenologists like Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, but also religion. God Without Being, for example, is concerned predominantly with an analysis of idolatry, a theme strongly linked in Marion's work with love and the gift, which is a concept also explored at length by Derrida.
Marion was born in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, on 3 July 1946. He studied at the University of Nanterre (now the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and the Sorbonne and then did graduate work in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he was taught by Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze. At the same time, Marion's deep interest in theology was privately cultivated under the personal influence of theologians such as Louis Bouyer, Jean Daniélou, Henri de Lubac, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. From 1972 to 1980 he studied for his doctorate and worked as an assistant lecturer at the Sorbonne. After receiving his doctorate in 1980, he began teaching at the University of Poitiers.
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