Fragility and Transcendence - Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chretien

This first-ever collection of original essays devoted to philosopher, theologian, and poet Jean-Louis Chrétien's work, this interdisciplinary collection includes Chrétien's collaborators, successors, and Anglophone interpreters and explores themes of temporality, prayer, and religious reading.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction, Jeffrey Bloechl
1. Knowing the Secret After and According to Jean-Louis Chrétien, Jean-Luc Marion
2. Blessed Failing, Jérôme de Gramont
3. Fatigue, Illness and Joy, Rudolf Bernet
4. Wrestling with the Angel, Emmanuel Falque
5. Hospitality and Responsibility. The Possibility of an Antiphonal Ethics in Jean-Louis Chrétien, Crina Gschwandtner
6. The Body of the Response, Emmanuel Housset
7. The Poetics of the Symbolic Body in Chrétien's "Symbolique du Corps", Stephen E. Lewis
8. Praying with Jean-Louis Chrétien, Andrew Prevot
9. The Cosmic Poetics of Jean-Louis Chrétien, Catherine Pickstock
About the Contributors
Index

About the author

Edited by Jeffrey Bloechl

Summary

This first-ever collection of original essays devoted to philosopher, theologian, and poet Jean-Louis Chrétien’s work, this interdisciplinary collection includes Chrétien’s collaborators, successors, and Anglophone interpreters and explores themes of temporality, prayer, and religious reading.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Bloechl
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Bloechl (Editor), Bloechl Jeffrey (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781538153215
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5321-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Theology, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism