ABSTRACT
Jean-Luc Marion, born in 1946 outside of Paris, is one of the foremost living French philosophers and since 2008 has been a member of the illustrious Academie Francaise. Marion’s work on Descartes is absolutely essential for understanding his phenomenological concerns. Marion operates with a very precise and narrow definition of metaphysics, which he works out in detail in his studies of Descartes. After God Without Being, Marion turns increasingly to phenomenology as a method for overcoming the metaphysical restrictions of modernity. Marion has recourse to Immanual Kant’s categories for making sense of phenomena to articulate what it might mean for a phenomenon to be given as saturated. Much of the discussion surrounding Marion’s work is about the contested boundaries between philosophy and theology. Marion articulates a phenomenology that can take faith and religious experience seriously and provide philosophical justification for them.
