Bonfand borrows it from the philosopher Jean-Luc Marion (one of the most important thinkers of the French new wave in phenomenology), as particularly developed in In Excess: Studies on Saturated Phenomena, 2002 (originally published as: De surcroît. Etudes sur les phénomènes saturées, 2001). In Marion’s phenomenology of giveness, the saturated phenomenon refers to a kind of extreme phenomena which confront the perception and the condition of phenomenality to its limits. Traditionally, that is according to Kantian philosophy, in the case of poor phenomena, the quality -the intensive greatness- of the phenomenon allows the intuition.
