Jean-Luc Marion Quotes on Knowledge
Jean-Luc Marion’s Being Given (Étant donné, 1997) and In Excess (2001) give contemporary phenomenology its most ambitious account of the conditions under which a phenomenon can give itself to consciousness without being reduced to the intentional object the standard Husserlian framework had analyzed. The central category of the saturated phenomenon — the phenomenon whose intuitive richness exceeds and overwhelms the categories the receiving subject brings to it — covers the four limit cases of the event, the idol, the flesh, and the icon, with the corresponding analysis of religious revelation as a fifth saturated phenomenon framing Marion’s parallel Catholic theological work. The framework, developed in dialogue with Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida, shaped contemporary phenomenology and the broader engagement between continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jean-Luc Marion:
“What gives itself shows itself.”
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Attributed to Jean-Luc Marion:
“The saturated phenomenon is one in which intuition exceeds the concept.”
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“The icon and the idol determine two manners of being for beings, not two classes of beings.”
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“The idol depends on the gaze that it satisfies, since if the gaze did not desire to satisfy itself in the idol, the idol would have no dignity for it.”
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“p. 57 3. The Crossing of Being; 1. The Silence of the Idol”
Theism and atheism bear equally upon an idol . They remain enemies, but fraternal enemies, in a common and impassable idolatry . Of such idolatry Nietzsche gives the best and final illustration, by demonstrating in exemplary fashion the ... functions held by the idol...