Erotic Phenomenon - Marion Jean-Luc
Erotic Phenomenon - Marion Jean-Luc While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy means "love of…
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Erotic Phenomenon - Marion Jean-Luc
While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy means "love of wisdom," but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love.
In The Erotic Phenomenon, Jean-Luc Marion asks this fundamental question of philosophy, while reviving inquiry into the concept of love itself.Marion 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. So where did the love go? 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.
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