Overview

In France today, philosophy-phenomenology in particular-finds itself in a paradoxical relation to theology. Some debate a ""theological turn."" Others disavow theological arguments as if such arguments would tarnish their philosophical integrity, while nevertheless carrying out theology in other venues. In Crossing the Rubicon, Emmanuel Falque seeks to end this face-off. Convinced that ""the more one theologizes, the better one philosophizes,"" he proposes a counterblow by theology against phenomenology. Instead of another philosophy of ""the threshold"" or ""the leap""-and through a retrospective and forward-looking examination of his own method-he argues that an encounter between the two disciplines will reveal their mutual fruitfulness and their true distinctive borders. Falque shows that he has made the crossing between philosophy and theology and back again with audacity and perhaps a little recklessness, knowing full well that no one thinks without exposing himself to risk.

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Author:   Emmanuel Falque ,  Reuben Shank ,  Matthew Farley
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780823269877

ISBN 10:   0823269876
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   01 June 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction by Matthew Farley Opening SC1. A Breakthrough SC2. A Crossing SC3. An Experience Part I: Interpreting 1. Is Hermeneutics Fundamental? SC4. The Hermeneutical Relief SC5. Confessional Hermeneutics SC6. Toward a phenomenality of the text 2. For a Hermeneutic of the Body and the Voice SC7. Aphonal Thought SC8. The voice is the phenomenon SC9. The voice that embodies Part II: Deciding 3. Always Believing SC10. A belief at the origin SC11. The prejudice of the absence of prejudices SC12. Faith and Non-Faith 4. Kerygma and Decision SC13. Philosophy of the Decision SC14 Theology of the Decision SC15 Deciding Together Part III: Crossing 5. ""Tiling"" and Conversion SC16 The Horizon of Finitude SC17. On ""Tiling"" or Overlaying SC18. Of Conversion or Transformation 6. Finally Theology SC19. From the Threshold to the Leap SC20. The Principle of Proportionality SC21 A Sigh of Relief Epilogue: And Then ...? SC22 First to Live SC23 The Afterwards of the Afterwards SC24 With an Exposed Face Notes Index"

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Crossing the Rubicon is Emmanuel Falque's Discourse on Method: a pungent and polemic treatise on why we become better philosophers when we also do theology. Should we 'cross the Rubicon' and so trouble the distinction between philosophy and theology? Of course, Falque tells us! We have everything to gain, including something of great interest: a hermeneutic of the body and the voice. -Kevin Hart, University of Virginia

Crossing the Rubicon is Emmanuel Falque's Discourse on Method a pungent and polemic treatise on why we become better philosophers when we also do theology. Should we 'cross the Rubicon' and so trouble the distinction between philosophy and theology? Of course, Falque tells us! We have everything to gain, including something of great interest: a hermeneutic of the body and the voice. -Kevin Hart, University of Virginia

Author Information

Emmanuel Falque is Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. His most recent book in English is The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist.

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