{"product_id":"the-erotic-phenomenon","title":"The Erotic Phenomenon","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness  philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy means love of wisdom  but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. In The Erotic Phenomenon  Jean-Luc Marion attends to this dearth with an inquiry into the concept of love itself. Marion begins with a critique of Descartes equation of the egos ability to doubt with the certainty that one exists. We encounter love  he says  when we first step forward as a lover: I love therefore I am  and my love is the reason I care whether I exist or not. This philosophical base allows Marion to probe several manifestations of love and its variations  including carnal excitement  self-hate  lying and perversion  fidelity  the generation of children  and the love of God. Throughout  Marion stresses that all erotic phenomena stem not from the ego as popularly understood but instead from love. Marion is doing the most interesting work in phenomenology today. . . . This is not a book about other books about love. It is patiently and carefully attentive to the things themselves  and reads as an analysis that is at once rigorous and lyricalattuned to both the concept and the caress.Choice  Marions avowed topic is the erotic phenomenon  and his method is phenomenology. He is a master of that method  and the result is an analysis of erotic love of unparalleled precision and depth. The depiction he gives of the erotic phenomenon is fundamentally convincing  and readers will find their own loves illuminated and questioned.Commonweal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946091114549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226505375","price":46.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226505374.jpg?v=1769923241","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-erotic-phenomenon","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}