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The wedding feast of the Lamb : eros, the body, and the Eucharist / Emmanuel Falque ; translated by George Hughes.
LIBRA B105.B64 F3513 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Falque, Emmanuel, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Perspectives in continental philosophy
- Perspectives in Continental philosophy
- Standardized Title:
- Noces de l'agneau. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Human body (Philosophy).
- Human body--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Human body.
- Lord's Supper--Real presence.
- Lord's Supper.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Descent Into the Abyss 5
- 1 Philosophy to Its Limit 11
- §1 The Residue of the Body 12
- §2 Chaos and Tohu-Bohu 15
- §3 The Limit of the Phenomenon 18
- §4 Bodying Life 24
- 2 The Staging of the Last Supper 31
- §5 The Figure of the Lamb 32
- §6 From the Mystic Lamb to the Played Ox 39
- §7 Toward Another Metamorphosis 41
- §8 A Matter of Culture 43
- 3 Eros Eucharisticized 46
- §9 The Body Eucharisticized and the Body Eroticized 46
- §10 Charitable God 47
- §11 From Birth to Abiding 49
- §12 The Reason for Eating 53
- Part II The Sojourn of Humankind 59
- 4 The Animal That Therefore I Am 63
- §13 The Other Side of the Angel 70
- §14 The Animal in Common 79
- §15 From the Turn to the Forgetting 84
- §16 The Metaphysical Animal 90
- 5 Return to the Organic 100
- §17 What the Body Can Do 104
- §18 Manifesto of the Flesh 112
- §19 In Flesh and Bones 118
- §20 The Work of Art in Prose 125
- 6 Embrace and Differentiation 133
- §21 The Difference at the Origin 138
- §22 Love of the Limit 147
- §23 Desire and Differentiation 154
- §24 The Gaps of the Flesh 166
- Part III God Incorporate 173
- 7 The Passover of Animality 177
- §25 Return to the Scandal 178
- §26 Getting around the Scandal 183
- §27 The Dispute over Meat 188
- §28 Hominization and Filiation 195
- 8 "This Is My Body" 199
- §29 Transubstantiation 200
- §30 Incorporation 205
- §31 Consecration 209
- §32 Adoration 213
- 9 Plunging Bodily 218
- §33 The Assumption of the Flesh ["encharnement"] 220
- §34 The Viaticum 221
- §35 The Rapture of the Wedding Feast 224
- §36 Abiding ["manence"] 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823270408
- 0823270408
- 9780823270415
- 0823270416
- OCLC:
- 938992020
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