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Book SynopsisFalque presents a theological critique of French phenomenology, engaging Levinas, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Bonaventure, Scotus, Aquinas... He advances a Catholic hermeneutic of the body and the voice, a phenomenology of believing, and a metaphysical movement from human finitude and contingency to conversion and transformation via the overlay of the God-man.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
