Emmanuel Falque’s The Wedding Feast of the Lamb represents a turning point in his thought. Here, Falque links philosophy and theology in an original fashion that allows us to see the full effect of theology’s “backlash” against philosophy.
By attending closely to the incarnation and the eucharist, Falque develops a new concept of the body and of love: By avoiding the common mistake of “angelism”—consciousness without body—Falque considers the depths to which our humanity reflects animality, or body without consciousness. He shows the continued relevance of the question “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” (John 6:52), especially to philosophy.
We need to question the meaning of “this is my body” in “a way that responds to the needs of our time” (Vatican II). Because of the ways that “Hoc est corpus meum” has shaped our culture and our modernity, this is a problem both for religious belief and for culture.
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Translator’s Note
- Opening
- Preface: The Ghent Altarpiece, or, Th eAdoration of the Mystic Lamb
- Introduction: The Swerve of the Flesh
- PART I: DESCENT INTO THE ABYSS
- 1. Philosophy to Its Limit
- 1. The Residue of the Body
- 2. Chaos and Tohu-Bohu
- 3. The Limit of the Phenomenon
- 4. Bodying Life
- 2. The Staging of the Last Supper
- 5. The Figure of the Lamb
- 6. From the Mystic Lamb to the Flayed Ox
- 7. Toward Another Metamorphosis
- 8. A Matter of Culture
- 3. Eros Eucharisticized
- 9. The Body Eucharisticized and the Body Eroticized
- 10. Charitable God
- 11. From Birth to Abiding
- 12. The Reason for Eating
- PART II: THE SOJOURN OF HUMANKIND
- 4. The Animal That Therefore I Am
- 13 The Other Side of the Angel
- 14. The Animal in Common
- 15. From the Turn to the Forgetting
- 16. The Metaphysical Animal
- 5. Return to the Organic
- 17. What the Body Can Do
- 18. Manifesto of the Flesh
- 19. In Flesh and Bones
- 20. The Work of Art in Prose
- 6. Embrace and Differentiation
- 21. The Difference at the Origin
- 22. Love of the Limit
- 23. Desire and Differentiation
- 24. The Gaps of the Flesh
- PART III: GOD INCORPORATE
- 7. The Passover of Animality
- 25. Return to the Scandal
- 26. Getting around the Scandal
- 27. The Dispute over Meat
- 28. Hominization and Filiation
- 8. “This Is My Body”
- 29. Transubstantiation
- 30. Incorporation
- 31. Consecration
- 32. Adoration
- 9. Plunging Bodily
- 33. The Assumption of the Flesh [“encharnement”]
- 34. The Viaticum
- 35. The Rapture of the Wedding Feast
- 36. Abiding [“manence”]
- Conclusion: The Flesh in Common
- Notes
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