Prolegomena to Charity

In seven essays that draw from metaphysics, phenomenology, literature, Christological theology, and Biblical exegesis,Marion sketches several prolegomena to a future fuller thinking and saying of love's paradoxical reasons, exploring evil, freedom, bedazzlement, and the loving gaze; crisis, absence, and knowing.

Jean-Luc Marion is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris. Stephen E. Lewis is Collegiate Assistant Professor of the humanities at the University of Chicago, as well as associate director of the Lumen Christi Institute, Chicago. Jeffrey L. Kosky is translator of On Descartes' Metaphysical Prism: The Constitution and the Limits of Onto-theo-logy in Cartesian Thought by Jean-Luc Marion. He has taught at Williams College.