Is Philosophy at an End? Lecture by Jean-Luc Marion (Académie Française)
The lecture took place on May 1, 2023, at Emerson Hall (210) at the Philosophy Department of Harvard University. It was sponsored by the Human Flourishing Program and the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University
Prof. Jean-Luc Marion is one of the most important philosophers in the world today. He is a pioneering thinker on phenomenological method, whose development of key concepts like givenness, reduction, and intentionality stand as equals with the founding insights of Husserl and Heidegger. He has written numerous influential books, including God without Being, Reduction and Givenness, Being Given, Prolegomena to Charity, The Crossing of the Visible, and The Erotic Phenomenon. In addition to his explorations in phenomenology he has written historical studies of Descartes and Augustine. His wide-ranging research engages numerous topics relevant to human flourishing: art, God, revelation, and love. He has held positions at University of Paris X-Nanterre, the Catholic Institute of Paris, the Sorbonne, and the University of Chicago Divinity School. In 2008 he was elected as an immortel by the Académie Française.
Prof. Marion spoke from his latest book, La métaphysique et après: Essai sur l'historicité et sur les époques de la philosophie. In his lecture he will address the question of whether and how philosophy as it has been practiced for centuries in the modern age is now coming to an end. Prof. Marion forecasts the opportunity to explore new spaces within post-metaphysical thought by recruiting the expanded and expansive tools of phenomenology.
Prof. Marion's lecture was followed by a series of responses and a discussion by Sean Kelly (Harvard University), Dan Dahlstrom (Boston University), and Charles Larmore (Brown University). Link to the recording of the full version of the event will be posted in due course.
This event was organized by
Stephanie Rumpza (Université Paris-Sorbonne: Paris IV)
Murray Littlejohn (University of New Brunswick)
Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University)
Wojciech Kaftanski (Harvard University)
