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English-language anthology to bring together extracts from Falque’s major works, key essays and even some previously unpublished material.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.
Foreword, Kevin Hart (University of Virginia, 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
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), The Loving Struggle (2018), and Crossing the Rubicon (2016). Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere is an FWO Research Fellow at KU Leuven. He is the author of The Philosophy of Emmanuel Falque and co-editor of The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy.
Reviews for The Emmanuel Falque Reader: Key Writings in Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy of Religion
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 *
