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Informationen zum Autor Emmanuel Falque is Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Paris. He is well known for writings that combine an expertise in medieval philosophy, modern French phenomenology, and theology. His recent publications include Passer le Rubicon [Crossing the Rubicon] (2013), Saint Bonaventure et l'entrée de Dieu en théologie (2000); Dieu, la chair et l'autre [God, the Flesh and the Other] (2008) and the trilogy: Le passseur de Gethsémani (1999), Métamorphose de la finitude [Metamorphosis of Finitude] (2004), and Les Noces de l'Agneau [The Wedding Feast of the Lamb] (2011). His works have been translated into English, Spanish, and Italian. Klappentext Already widely debated upon its publication in French, this book offers a provocative account of Christ's Passion in terms not of faith but of a "credible Christianity" that can remain meaningful to nonbelievers.For Falque, anxiety, suffering, and death are not simply the "ills" of our society but the essential horizon of what we confront as humans. Doubtful of Heidegger's famous statement that the notion of salvation renders Christians unable authentically to experience anxiety in the face of death, Falque explores the Passion with a radical emphasis on the physicality and corporeality of Christ's suffering and death, and on continuities with the mortality of our bodies. Written in the wake of a friend's death, Falques's study is theologically and philosophically rigorous, yet engagingly written and deeply humane. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Note xiii Preface to the English-Language Edition xv Opening : The Isenheim Altarpiece or "The Taking on Board of Suffering" xvii Introduction : Shifting Understandings of Anxiety 1 PART I: THE FACE-TO-FACE OF FINITUDE 1 From the Burden of Death to Flight before Death 7 §1 The Burden of Death, 7 ¿ §2 Fleeing from Death, 8 2 The Face of Death or Anxiety over Finitude 10 §3 Death "for Us" Humans, 10 ¿ §4 Genesis and Its Symbolism, 11 ¿ §5 The Mask of Perfection, 12 ¿ §6 The Image of Finitude in Man, 13 ¿ §7 Finitude: Finite and Infinite, 16 ¿ §8 Finitude and Anxiety, 16 ¿ §9 The Eclipse of Finitude, 17 ¿ §10 The Face of Death, 18 ¿ §11 To Die "with," 19 3 The Temptation of Despair or Anxiety over Sin 22 §13 Inevitable Death, 22 ¿ §14 The Conquest of Sin, 22 ¿ §15 Sin and Anxiety, 23 ¿ §16 The Temptation of Despair, 24 4 From the Affirmation of Meaninglessness to the Suspension of Meaning 26 §17 The Life Sentence, 26 ¿ §18 The Christian Witness, 27 ¿ §19 Meaninglessness and the Suspension of Meaning, 27 PART II: CHRIST FACED WITH ANXIETY OVER DEATH §20 Two Meditations on Death, 29 ¿ §21 Alarm and Anxiety, 31 5 The Fear of Dying and Christ's "Alarm" 33 §22 Taking on Fear and Abandonment, 33 ¿ §23 The Cup, Sadness, and Sleep, 34 ¿ §24 Resignation, Waiting, and Heroism, 35 ¿ §25 The Silence at the End, 36 ¿ §26 The Scenarios of Death, 37 ¿ §27 The Triple Failure of the Staging, 38 ¿ §28 From Alarm to Anxiety, 39 6 God's Vigil 41 §29 Remaining Always Awake, 41 ¿ §30 The Passage of Death, the Present of the Passion, the Future of the Resurrection, 42 ¿ §31 Theological Actuality and Phenomenological Possibility, 43 7 The Narrow Road of Anxiety 45 §32 Indefiniteness, Reduction to Nothing, and Isolation, 45 ¿ §33 The Strait Gate, 46 ¿ §34 Anxiety over "Simply Death," 47 ¿ §35 Indefiniteness (Putting off the Cup) and the Powerless Power of God, 47 ¿ §36 Reduction to Nothing and Kenosis, 52 ¿ §37 The Isolation of Humankind and Communion with the Father, 54 ¿ §38 Of Anxiety Endured on the Horizon of Death, 55 8 Death and Its Possibilities 57 §39 Manner of Living, Possibility of the Impossib...
