God Without Being: Hors-Texte

by Jean-Luc Marion

Book Overview

Jean-Luc Marion advances a controversial argument for a God free of all categories of Being. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of both metaphysics and neo-Thomist theology: that God, before all else, must be. Rather, he locates a "God without Being" in the realm of agape, of Christian charity or love.

This volume, the first translation into English of the work of this leading Catholic philosopher,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226505413
• ISBN13: 9780226505411
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"