Emmanuel Falque Reader

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.

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.

• Preface, Emmanuel Falque (Catholic University of Paris, France)Foreword, Kevin Hart (Duke University, USA)AcknowledgementsNote on the TextsIntroduction, Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere (KU Leuven, Belgium)Part One: Method1. 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 Philosophy6. 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 Christianity8. 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 EucharistPart Four: Phenomenology16. 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-PhenomenalPart Five: Embodiment19. Toward an Ethics of the Spread Body20. The Turn of the Flesh