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.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Opening
- The Great Crossing
- 1. A Breakthrough
- 2. A Crossing
- 3. An Experience
- PART I : INTERPRETING
- 1. Is Hermeneutics Fundamental?
- 4. The Hermeneutical Relief
- 5. Confessional Hermeneutics
- 6. Toward a Phenomenality of the Text
- 2. For a Hermeneutic of the Body and the Voice
- 7. Aphonal Thought
- 8. The Voice Is the Phenomenon
- 9. The Voice That Embodies
- PART II: DECIDING
- 3. Always Believing
- 10. A Belief at the Origin
- 11. The Prejudice of the Absence of Prejudices
- 12. Faith and Nonfaith
- 4. Kerygma and Decision
- 13. Philosophy of the Decision
- 14. Theology of the Decision
- 15. Deciding Together
- PART III: CROSSING
- 5. "Tiling" and Conversion
- 16. The Horizon of Finitude
- 17. On "Tiling" or Overlaying
- 18. Of Conversion or Transformation
- 6. Finally Th eology
- 19. From the Threshold to the Leap
- 20. The Principle of Proportionality
- 21. A Sigh of Relief
- Epilogue: And Then . . . ?
- 22. First to Live
- 23. The Afterward of the Afterward
- 24. With an Exposed Face
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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