03/12/2025
The Departments of Religious Studies, Comparative Literature, and The Remarque Institute are proud to announce a book celebration with Jean-Luc Marion, devoted to the recent translation of his Revelation Comes From Elsewhere (Stanford UP, 2024; D'aillieurs, la révélation, 2020). During the first half of the roundtable, Professor Marion will be in conversation with Crina Gschwandtner (Philosophy, Fordham) and Hent de Vries (Religious Studies, NYU).
Date: Monday, March 17th
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: Jurow Lecture Hall, 31 Washington Pl, New York
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Professor Marion is a member of the Académie Française and has long taught at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) as well as the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. The author of numerous influential historical and systematic studies on Descartes, phenomenology, Patristic and mystical theology, and the visual arts, his recent magnum opus not only revisits the Biblical sources and classical archives of the Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church; he also demonstrates that the first millennium of Christian thought was, in fact, largely unfamiliar with the epistemologically restricted concept of "Revelation" (as distinct from "Reason"). Only the Christian theologians' apparent heirs in medieval Scholasticism, early modern, and modern metaphysics, represented by Aquinas and Suárez, Kant and Hegel, made much of it. Departing from their notion's presumed intrinsic and formal limitations, Marion argues, a rigorously deconstructed concept of revelation must return to a more original and Biblical apocalyptic as well as Augustinian sense of "uncovering" and "givenness." Indeed, the latter's unique modes of manifestation, Marion concludes, should be understood in a radically new, dialectically theological no less than radically phenomenological, interpretive key.
