Jean-Luc Marion Conference - Franciscan University of Steubenville
2008 Annual Conference on Christian Philosophy Jean-Luc Marion Sponsored by The M.A. Program in Philosophy Franciscan University of Steubenville The 2008 Annual Conference on Christian Philosophy was on the thought of the contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion. The two day conference in April consisted of thirty-four papers by scholars from across the United States as well as a keynote address by Professor Marion entitled, “The Phenomenological Origin of the Concept of Givenness.” Jean-Luc Marion is an internationally known Catholic philosopher and theologian who holds chairs at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris. He works in the areas of modern philosophy, contemporary phenomenology and philosophy of religion and is known for his attempt to synthesize the catholic intellectual tradition with post-modernist thought. His works include, On Descartes’ Metaphysical Prism; Cartesian Questions; The Idol and Distance; God Without Being; Reduction and Givenness; Being Given: An Essay on the Phenomenology of Givenness; and In Excess: Studies on Saturated Phenomena. In 1992 Prof. Marion was awarded the Grand Prix du Philosophie de l’Academie Francaise. A list of conference participants is given below in alphabetical order. Keynote Address By Jean-Luc Marion The Phenomenological Origin of the Concept of Givenness Bryne Allport University of Scranton Between Abundance and Absence: The Witness in Marion’s Saturated Phenomenon Larry Baker Institute for Christian Studies Gifted Time: Marion’s Challenge to Undecidability Brian Becker Fuller Theological Seminary Azusa Pacific University UCLA Alzheimer’s Research Center Saturated Phenomena and Social Neuroscience: Degrees of Givenness in Clinical Psychology Michelle Blohm Franciscan University of Steubenville The Idolatry of Trent Elizabeth Boggs Saint Vincent College Proclamation and Presence: Seeing Marion Through Lutheran Eyes Carlos Bovell Institute of Christian Studies Phenomenology and the Search for the Infinite God Ken Boyer Duquesne University Book, Body, and Breath: Icons for the Church Glenn Chicoine University of Dallas Sign and Gift John Crosby Franciscan University of Steubenville Is Something Missing in Marion’s “Principle of Insufficient Reason”? The Challenge of Phenomenological Value Philosophy Daniel Dwyer Xavier University Intentionality is Always Already Erotic Chad Engelland Borromeo Seminary John Carroll University The Return of Eros in Marion Sean Fox Saint Vincent College Marion versus Metaphysics: A Postmodernist’s New Look at God Christina Gschwandtner University of Scranton A Dieu or From the Logos: Theological Turnings in Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion? Nathan Halloran Fordham University A Study of Woman as Saturated Phenomenon in Marion and Irigaray Philip Harold Roberts Morris University Inspiration and Givenness: Ethics According to Levinas and Marion Kyle Hubbard Fordham University “Loving Even Myself”: Marion on Self-Love Brian Johnstone Holy Redeemer College The Catholic University of America Givenness and the Moral Life Michael Kim Villanova University Love at the Limit of Phenomenology: Marion, Sartre, Badiou Andrew Komasinski Fordham University Making Sense of the Saturated Phenomenon: How Kierkegaard Can Help Marion’s Being Givenness Stephen Lewis Franciscan University of Steubenville The Lover’s Advance as Epektasis in Jean-Luc Marion’s The Erotic Phenomenon Tanya Loughead Canisius College The Happy Idiot in El Salvador; Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology of Self-Love Kevin McCabe University of Chicago Divinity School The Truth of the Mystery: Henri de Lubac and Jean-Luc Marion on Eucharistic Theology David Miller University of Louisville Union College The Two Natures of Christ as Given and Shown: A Christology Based on Marion’s Phenomenology of Revelation Andrew Moran Franciscan University of Steubenville The Metaphysics of Blessed John Duns Scotus: Idolatrous or Iconic? Derek Morrow University of Dallas Icon of the Gift versus the Idol of Pure Nature: A Case Study in Marion’s Phenomenological Reading of Cartesian Metaphysics Joseph Rivera St. Louis University Reading the Atonement as a Saturated Phenomenon: Jean-Luc Marion as a Resource for Theology Samuel Rocha Ohio State University Marion and James’ Heartfelt and Intuitive Method-ology: Its Implications for Philosophy, Education and Beyond Jesse Russell Louisiana State University A Vision of Poetics in the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion Bret Saunders University of Dallas The Distance of Friendship: Reading Augustine with Marion Andrew Staron Catholic University of America Moral Action and the Pragmatic of As If: Gerald McKenny’s Critique of Marion’s Privileging of Love Molly Sturdevant DePaul University Essence, Esse, and the Possibility of Being: Marion on Ontological Arguments Erik van Versendaal Mundelein St. Mary of the Lake Seminary Marcel and Marion on the Way of Life and the Way of Death John White Franciscan University of Steubenville St. Bonaventure’s Illumination Theory and The Problem of Metaphysical Idolatry Paul Zipfel Bradley University The Dependent Self: A Study of Marion’s Phenomenology and Its Effects on the Self
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