The Emmanuel Falque Reader: Key Writings in Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy of Religion: Emmanuel Falque: Bloomsbury Academic

The Emmanuel Falque Reader

Key Writings in Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy of Religion

The Emmanuel Falque Reader

Key Writings in Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy of Religion

Description

Emmanuel Falque is one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today. This is the first English-language anthology to bring together extracts from Falque's major works, key essays and even some previously unpublished material.

Spanning his entire career to date, The Emmanuel Falque Reader is organised thematically and showcases the vast array of Falque's interests, from his early work on medieval philosophy to his methodology, anthropology and Christian phenomenology. It also includes an Editor's Introduction, which situates Falque within phenomenology's so-called 'theological turn' and provides a comprehensive overview of his philosophy.

Falque's thinking urges more careful consideration of human finitude, atheism in a secular age, and the interaction between philosophy and theology. Featuring a foreword by esteemed scholar Kevin Hart, this essential collection explores the new directions in which Falque is taking continental philosophy of religion.

Preface, Emmanuel Falque (Catholic University of Paris, France)
Foreword, Kevin Hart (Duke University, USA)
Acknowledgements
Note on the Texts
Introduction, Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Part One: Method
1. The Horizon of Finitude (from Crossing the Rubicon, §16)
2. On “Tilling” or Overlaying (from Crossing the Rubicon, §17)
3. From the Threshold to the Leap (from Crossing the Rubicon, §19)
4. The Principle of Proportionality (from Crossing the Rubicon, §20)
5. The Immanence in Question (from The Metamorphosis of Finitude, §4)
Part Two: Medieval Philosophy
6. Fons Signatus: The Sealed Source (from God, the Flesh, and the Other, Introduction)
7. Theological Limit and Philosophical Finitude (from Saint Bonaventure and the Entrance of God into Theology, Afterword)
Part Three: Philosophy of Christianity
8. A Matter of Culture (from The Wedding Feast of the Lamb, §8)
9. Atheism from the Theologian's Viewpoint (from The Metamorphosis of Finitude, §11)
10. Shifting Understandings of Anxiety (from The Guide to Gethsemane, Introduction)
11. The Image of Finitude in Man (from The Guide to Gethsemane, §6)
12. The Eclipse of Finitude (from The Guide to Gethsemane, §17)
13.Theological Actuality and Phenomenological Possibility (from The Guide to Gethsemane, §31)
14. Another Way of Living the Same World (from The Metamorphosis of Finitude, §24)
15. This Is My Body: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Eucharist
Part Four: Phenomenology
16. The Preemption of the Infinite (from The Metamorphosis of Finitude, §5)
17. The Swerve Towards the Extraordinary (from The Loving Struggle, §20)
18. The Extra-Phenomenal
Part Five: Embodiment
19. Toward an Ethics of the Spread Body
20. The Turn of the Flesh

Product details

Published	05 Sep 2024
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	288
ISBN	9781350318922
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions	234 x 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

This Reader is a very welcome sampler of Emmanuel's major works in medieval and contemporary continental philosophy. It marks the timely entry to the English-speaking world of another central figure in the theological turn in phenomenology.

Richard Kearney, Seelig Chair of Philosophy, Boston College, USA, author of Touch and Radical Hospitality
Emmanuel Falque is one of the most prolific and enthusiastic phenomenologists in the most recent generation of French philosophers and theologians. This collection includes representative selections from across his extensive oeuvre, thus providing an excellent introduction to the work of this important contemporary thinker.

Christina M. Gschwandtner, Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, USA