The Erotic Phenomenon by Jean-Luc Marion
Six Meditations
This philosophical meditation treats love as a phenomenon that gives itself before it can be mastered or known, proposing the lover rather than the knower as the starting point for understanding the self. It explores how desire, promise, and fidelity unfold through the body and the gaze, showing that eros exceeds intention and calculation, exposing the subject to risk, vulnerability, and transformation. The text argues that the self is constituted not by certainty but by being addressed and responding in love, and that the fullest horizon of eros emerges in a movement toward unconditional gift, culminating in a form of love that embraces permanence, responsibility, and charity.
Purchase from
Bookshop.org
- Published
- 2003
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 280-320
- Original Language
- French
- Avg User Rating
- No ratings yet
- Alternate Titles
- - Le phénomène érotique
This book is not currently on any lists.