A symposium with philosophers Rémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich) and Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) at the University of Chicago on November 6, 2014.
Rémi Brague is Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Religious Philosophy at the Sorbonne and Romano Guardini Chair of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich. In 2012, he was awarded the Ratzinger Prize for Theology. He is author of numerous books on classical and medieval culture, religion, literature, and law, including Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization and Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea.
Jean-Luc Marion is Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology in the Divinity School and concurrent professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is also Professor Emeritus of Modern Philosophy and Metaphysics at the Sorbonne and is a member of the Académie Française. Among his books are In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine, God Without Being, and The Erotic Phenomenon.