Washington and Lee University
Baker 108Ph.D. University of Chicago Divinity School, 1997
B.A. Williams College, 1989
Specific projects: Happiness, disenchantment, and modern secularity
General interests: Phenomenology and religion; Theories of modern disenchantment and the possibilities of re-enchantment; Traditions of mystical theology in Christian Thought and Culture
History of Christian Thought and Cultures; Religion and Philosophy; Religion in the Modern and Contemporary World
Books:
Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (forthcoming, fall 2012).
Levinas and the Philosophy of Religion, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Selected essays and articles:
"Metaphysical Certainty and Confessing Desire for the Blessed Life: The Evidence of Self in Jean-Luc Marion's Reading of St. Augustine" in Gott denken - Ohne Metaphysik? Zu einer aktuellen Kontroverse in Theologie und Philosophie, Andreas Hunziker and Ingolf Dalferth, eds. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2012.
"Recalling our Vocation: A Conversation about Teaching with Mark C. Taylor" in Pedagogical Exercises and Theories of Practice, a special issue of Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory < www.jcrt.org > (forthcoming fall, 2012).
"Vedere la luce: la contemplazione e le opere di James Turrell" in La promessa immaginata. Proposte per una teologia fondamentale, Stefanie Knauss and Davide Zordan, eds. Bologna: Edezione Dehoniane, 2011.
"World Loss and the Liberation of Man: Levinas' Praise of Disenchantment and De-sacralization" in MonoKL International Idea and Art Magazine, Volkan Celebi, ed., Istanbul, 2011.
"The Human in Question: Augustinian Dimensions in Jean-Luc Marion," in Words of Life: New Theological Turns in French Phenomenology, Norman Wirzba and Bruce Ellis Benson, eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.
"Love Strong as Death: Levinas and Heidegger" in The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians, Kevin Hart, ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.
"La libération de l'otage" in Rodolphe Calin, ed. Etudes philosophiques. Emmanuel Levinas, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2006.
"Iconic Revisions of the Modern World Picture," Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 4/1 (2002). <www.jcrt.org>
Additional essays and articles can be noted upon request
Selected translated books:
Marion, Jean-Luc, [Au lieu de soi. L'approche de Saint Augustin] In the Self's Place: The Approach of St. Augustine. Stanford: Stanford University Press (forthcoming, fall 2012).
Marion, Jean-Luc, [Etant donné] Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Marion, Jean-Luc, [Sur le prisme métaphysique de Descartes] On Descartes' Metaphysical Prism: The Constitution and Limits of Onto-theo-logy in Cartesian Thought, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Additional translations of articles can be noted upon request