Givenness & Hermeneutics

About Jean-Luc Marion

Jean-Luc Marion is known for his idea of saturated phenomenon which states that there are phenomena of such overwhelming givenness or overflowing fulfilment that the intentional acts aimed at these phenomena are overrun flooded or saturated. Marion also discusses intentionality in his book Prolegomena to Charity in which he explores the human idea of love and its lack of definition; and in Being Given and in particular in In Excess: Studies in Saturated Phenomena.Several of his publications have recently appeared or forthcoming in English (The Reason of the Gift University of Virginia Press 2011) Negative Certitudes (forthcoming University of Chicago Press 2012-13) Instead of Self. The Approach to St. Augustine (Stanford University Press forthcoming 2013) Descartes Grey Ontology (forthcoming St. Augustine Press 2013) and Le croire pour le voir (English translation forthcoming 2014 Fordham University Press). And two new books have just been published or forthcoming in French this year: Figures de phenomenology ( J. Vrin Paris 2012) and Sur la pensée passive de Descartes (P.U.F. Paris 2012). Marion has been awarded the Grand prix de philosophie de l Académie française and the Karl-Jaspers Prize of the city and University of Heidelberg Germany in 2008. In 2008 he was elected to and then received (2010) in lAcadémie française as an immortel (member). In 2009 he was elected to the Academia dei Lincie (Rome).