Emmanuel Falque: 10 books

It has been 25 years since Dominique Janicaud derisively proclaimed the “theological turn” in French phenomenology due to the return of God to philosophy through the influence of “religious” thinkers such as Lévinas, Ricoeur, and Marion. Since then, the “theological turn” has flowered...

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...

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...

Voici, réunies en un seul volume, trois oeuvres fondamentales de la philosophie contemporaine. Voici la lecture continue qu'Emmanuel Falque mène des trois jours de la Passion du Christ. Voici, récapitulée, l'expérience de Dieu qui est celle de l'homme. Qu

This book starts off from a philosophical premise: nobody can be in the world unless they are born into the world. It examines this premise in the light of the theological belief that birth serves, or ought to serve, as a model for understanding what resurrection could signify for us today. After...

Le concept d'expérience revient aujourd'hui en force. Il plonge pourtant ses racines dans notre passé. La " réflexion sur l'expérience " naît en effet au Moyen Âge aux XIe et XIIe siècles dans le cadre de la théologie monastique. Car

A key book by one of Europe's most important figures from a younger generation of theologians and philosophers.

Properly original, the new version of this essay intends both to nourish debate and differentiate points of view. In its new articulation, the book justifies work that has been carried out since. It justifies the sense of Franciscan rootedness that has never been denied and at the same time opens...

La confrontation entre philosophie et psychanalyse a connu de beaux jours. Mais après les grands débats avec P. Ricoeur, M. Merleau-Ponty, J. Derrida, G. Deleuze ou M. Henry, ce dialogue semble aujourd'hui rompu. Il fallait donc de nouveau franchir le Rub

Ce livre s'ouvre sur un pari, celui de lire philosophiquement les pères de l'Eglise et les médiévaux, jusques et y compris dans les objets de la théologie. Certes, on n'a pas attendu la phénoménologie pour interroger le corpus des textes patristiques et médiévaux, mais le rapport de l'une...