Description
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence, subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection and eternal life.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: Michel Henry – The Phenomenology of Incarnation
1 The Search for a New Anthropological Paradigm: Michel Henry’s Reflections on Incarnation
Jean Leclercq
2 The Incarnation of the Word and the A Priori of the Flesh: Michel Henry and the Problem of ‘Appearing Through’
Grégori Jean
3 Presentation of Michel Henry’s Notes on the Incarnation
Grégori Jean, Jean Leclercq and Elvira Vitouchanskaia
Preparatory Notes to Incarnation: ‘The Archaeology of the Flesh, Finitude and the Question of Salvation’
Michel Henry
4 The Incarnation of Life: The Phenomenology of Birth in Henry and Merleau-Ponty
Renato Boccali
5 Reflections on the Revalorisation of the Body in the Material Phenomenology of Michel Henry
Olivier Salazar-Ferrer
Part II: Jean-Luc Marion – Sacred and Profane Interpretations of the Body
6 On the Erotic Phenomenon
Jean-Luc Marion
7 Aesthetics and Corporal Strategies of Eros
Aldo Marroni
8 From Embodiment to the Saturated Language
Javier Bassas Vila
9 Cur Deus Homo? The Irrational Residue of Being: Reflections on Jean-Luc Marion and Shestov
Ramona Fotiade
10 The Eucharistic Body
David Jasper
11 Being Embodied and Being towards Death
Alexander Broadie
Part III: Jean-Luc Nancy – A Deconstructive Perspective
12 Verbum Caro Factum
Jean-Luc Nancy
13 Adoration and Phenomenology: The Dawn of an Adorable World
Pierre-Philippe Jandin
14 Between ‘God’s Phallus’ and ‘The Body of Christ’: The Embodied World of Contemporary African Literature in Achille Mbembe and Jean-Luc Nancy
Michael Syrotinski
15 ‘I Don’t Believe It!’: Faith, Belief and Embodiment in Pascal, Nietzsche and Heidegger
Paul Bishop
16 The Embodied Philosophy of Jean Grenier
Toby Garfitt
