The erotic phenomenon

Abstract

Jean-Luc Marion's latest work is a timely celebration of the agapaic structure of agapaic structure of agapaic sexuality, made possible by a non-reductive and armative account of both femininity and erotic intersubjectivity. Much like a Kierkegaardian reading of Hegel, Marion takes up the basic Levinasian framework employed in the (in)famous section '� e Phenomenology of Eros' from Totality and Innity, only to utilise it as a means of oering a sustained critique of Levinas' understanding of sexual embodiment and the feminine. � e Erotic Phenomenon forms a striking continuum with Marion's previous work by elaborating upon some of his most cherished themes: the third reduction, the saturated phenomenon, love without being, the gi� , the overcoming of metaphysics etc. Indeed, Marion suggests in the preface that his entire oeuvre has been leading up to the question of the erotic phenomenon (p.10). Prospective readers will be happy to learn that the book is considerably easier to read than some of its more dicult predecessors (e.g. God Without Being). It is ane example of how the phenomenological