Phenomenology Booth, Pt. 3 / Emmanuel Falque / Finitude, Body, and Philosophy's Passage into Theology

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The Phenomenology Booth is a virtual exhibit devoted to the philosophical field of phenomenology. The exhibit is hosted on the Wipf and Stock Blog and includes a set of interviews with philosophers and theologians working in phenomenology, as well as a selection of Wipf and Stock’s books in phenomenology. You can find the link to the booth below.

Dr. Emmanuel Falque is on the philosophy faculty at the Catholic University of Paris and is the founder of the International Network in Philosophy of Religion. He is also the author of many volumes on phenomenology, including his forthcoming book with Cascade, By Way of Obstacles: A Pathway through a Work.

If you’re listening to this on Spotify, you should know that you can also watch this interview with subtitles on YouTube. The link to the YouTube video is in the description below.

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SOURCES MENTIONED:

Dika, Tarek. Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology.

Falque, Emmanuel. By Way of Obstacles: A Pathway through a Work (forthcoming).

———. Crossing the Rubicon: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology.

———. The Guide to Gethsemane: Anxiety, Suffering, Death.

———. Hors phénomène: Essai aux confins de la phénoménalité.

———. The Loving Struggle: Phenomenological and Theological Debates.

———. The Metamorphosis of Finitude: An Essay on Birth and Resurrection.

———. The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist.

———. Saint Bonaventure and the Entrance of God Into Theology.

Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time.

———. Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning.

———. Ponderings II–VI: Black Notebooks 1931–1938.

———. Ponderings VI–XI: Black Notebooks 1938–1939.

———. Ponderings XII–XV: Black Notebooks 1939–1942.

Henry, Michel. I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity.

———. Incarnation: A Philosophy of Flesh.

Ignatius of Loyola. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Janicaud, Dominique. Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: The French Debate.

Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority.

Marion, Jean-Luc. God Without Being: Hors-Texte.

———. The Idol and Distance: Five Studies.

———. Reduction and Givenness: Investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism Is a Humanism.

Tertullian. On the Flesh of Christ.

OUTLINE:

(02:00) – Describing the phenomenon

(07:37) – Merleau-Ponty, Marion, and Janicaud

(11:19) – Meeting Marion

(18:40) – Genealogy of French phenomenology

(21:00) – Science or poetry?

(25:05) – Reduction, intentionality, and body

(34:25) – The “counterblow” of theology

(51:02) – Phenomenology as apologetics?

(58:40) – The “loving struggle” with Marion

(01:11:40) – Finitude

(01:23:10) – Resurrection and (re)birth

(01:38:02) – Animality and humanity

(1:49:49) – “A pathway through a work”