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Kyle Hubbard
The Unity of Eros and Agape:
On Jean-Luc Marion’s Erotic Phenomenon
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This essay evaluates Jean-Luc Marion’s claim in The Erotic Phenomenon that eros and agape are “two names selected among an infinity of others in order to think and to say the one love” (221). I will defend his attempt to unite agape and eros against Jacques Derrida’s claim that we must love without any desire for reciprocity. Additionally, I will indicate what implications Marion’s account of love has for a discussion of love and its reasons. Marion correctly identifies the paradox at the heart of love: that in order to truly love, I must give up my demand for assurance, although I may still maintain the hope that another will love me. While Marion offers an important corrective to Derrida’s account of pure agape, I will argue that his account of love that includes both eros and agape ultimately resembles Derrida’s pure agape too closely because Marion does not sufficiently acknowledge the role of reciprocity in love.
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Joseph Betz
Review of Killing in War, by Jeff McMahon
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Eric M. Rovie
Review of Ethics and Humanity: Themes From the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover, ed. N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen, and Jeff McMahan
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Roger Chao
Review of Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy, ed. John Christiano and John Christman
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Roger Chao
Review of Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals, by Jean Kazez
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Maximiliano E. Korstanje
Review of Une Histoire Du Diable, by Robert Muchembled
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Maximiliano E. Korstanje
Review of Narrating Evil: a post-metaphysical theory of reflexive judgment, by Pia-Lara María
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