Interview with Gadamer Chair Professor Jean-Luc Marion

Jean-Luc Marion is a Member of the Académie française and Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, as well as Professor at the University of Chicago and the Institut Catholique de Paris. He has also been invited to serve as Gadamer Professor at Boston College for three consecutive years. A world-renowned philosopher and Catholic theologian, Marion is a leading figure in contemporary phenomenology, particularly known for his work on the phenomenology of religion, the concept of the gift, and the idea of God beyond being.

An expert on Descartes, Marion has written extensively on metaphysics, theology, and phenomenology. His major works include God Without Being, Reduction and Givenness, Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness, In Excess: Studies of Saturated Phenomena, and The Erotic Phenomenon, among many others. His scholarship has significantly shaped debates on givenness, revelation, and the limits of metaphysical thought. His more recent works include Negative Certainties, Givenness and Revelation, and D’ailleurs la Révélation (2020).