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.

• 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 Such8. 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 Bones12. The Turn of the Flesh 13. The Animal that Therefore I am 14. Return to the Organic 15. Ethics of the Spread BodyChapter IV. Phenomenology: The Extra-Phenomenal and the Limits of Phenomenology16. The Extra-Phenomenal17. The Resistance of Presence 18. The Expansion of the Psyche 19. Original Solitude Chapter V. Patristic and Medieval Philosophy: Phenomenology before Modernity20. 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, Eucharist24. The Fear of Dying and Christ’s ‘Alarm’ 25. The Narrow Road of Anxiety 26. The Resurrection Changes Everything27. The Passover of Animality 28. ‘This Is My Body’: Towards a Philosophy of the EucharistIndex of NamesIndex of Terms