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The Department of Philosophy at Wheaton College offers a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3. Jean Luc-Marion will present a lecture titled “The Rationality of the Gift.”
Arguably the most influential living French philosopher, Jean-Luc Marion is John Nuveen Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris--IV (Sorbonne). Philosophically, he established his reputation as one of the premiere Descartes scholars. Among his many Cartesian texts is On Descartes’s Metaphysical Prism. To many, he is better known as a philosophical theologian working in the Roman Catholic tradition and author of such texts as The Idol and Distance and God without Being. His more recent text Being Given represents a fundamental reworking of classical phenomenology with important implications for theology.
This lecture is the third in the 2008 McManis Lecture Series. Free and open to the public, the event will be held in room 339 of Blanchard Hall (campus map), located at 501 College Avenue in Wheaton. For more information, call the Department of Philosophy at 630.752.5040 or visit www.wheaton.edu/philosophy.
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