Jean-Luc Marion

Jean-Luc Marion
Born	(1946-07-03) 3 July 1946 (age 78) Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Education	Lycée Condorcet
Alma mater	École normale supérieure
Era	20th-/21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Phenomenology Postmodernism Catholic theology
Main interests	Philosophical theology, Phenomenology, Descartes
Notable ideas	"As much reduction, as much givenness," saturated phenomenon, the intentionality of love, counter-experience

Jean-Luc Marion (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lyk maʁjɔ̃]; born 3 July 1946) is a French philosopher and Catholic theologian. He is a former student of Jacques Derrida whose work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy.^[1]

Much of his academic work has dealt with Descartes and phenomenologists like Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, but also religion. God Without Being, for example, is concerned predominantly with an analysis of idolatry, a theme strongly linked in Marion's work with love and the gift, which is a concept also explored at length by Derrida.