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Emmanuel Falque is one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today. Introducing students and scholars to his thought, this is the first English-language anthology to bring together the most important extracts from Falque''s major texts, key essays and even some previously unpublished material. Spanning his entire career to date, is organised thematically and showcases the vast array of Falque''s interests and concerns, 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 further readings, user-friendly indices, and a foreward by esteemed scholar Kevin Hart, this essential collection explores the new directions Falque is taking the philosophy of religion.>
List of contents
Foreword, Kevin Hart (Duke University, USA)
Introduction, Nikolaas Deketelaere (Catholic University of Paris, France and the Australian Catholic University, Australia)
Chapter I. Methodology: The Backlash of Theology on Philosophy and Phenomenology
1. Conflict and Love
2. The Great Bifurcation
3. Ordinary Life
4. The Impossible Incorporation
5. A Phenomenology of the Underground
6. Always Believing
7. Phenomenology and Theology: An Essay on Borders
Chapter II. Anthropology: Finitude as Such
8. Impassable Immanence
9. From the Burden of Death to the Flight before Death
10. Philosophy to Its Limit
11. Is There a Drama of Atheist Humanism?
Chapter III. Embodiment: In Flesh and Bones
12. The Turn of the Flesh
13. The Animal that Therefore I am
14. Return to the Organic
15. Ethics of the Spread Body
Chapter IV. Phenomenology: The Extra-Phenomenal and the Limits of Phenomenology
16. The Extra-Phenomenal
17. The Resistance of Presence
18. The Expansion of the Psyche
19. Original Solitude
Chapter V. Patristic and Medieval Philosophy: Phenomenology before Modernity
20. The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy
21. The Sealed Source
22. Theological Limit and Phenomenological Finitude
23. The Theophanic Argument
Chapter VI. Philosophy of Christianity: Passion, Resurrection, Eucharist
24. The Fear of Dying and Christ’s ‘Alarm’
25. The Narrow Road of Anxiety
26. The Resurrection Changes Everything
27. The Passover of Animality
28. ‘This Is My Body’: Towards a Philosophy of the Eucharist
Index of Names
Index of Terms
About the author
Emmanuel Falque is Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris, France. He has published widely in phenomenology, philosophy of religion and medieval philosophy. His most recent publications include
By Way of Obstacles (2022),
Nothing to It (2020),
The Guide to Gethsemane (2019) and
The Loving Struggle (2018). Falque is also the founder of the rapidly growing International Network of Philosophy of Religion.
