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The metamorphosis of finitude : an essay on birth and resurrection / Emmanuel Falque ; translated by George Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Falque, Emmanuel, 1963-
- Series:
- Perspectives in continental philosophy.
- Perspectives in continental philosophy
- Standardized Title:
- Metamorphose de la finitude. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birth (Philosophy).
- Resurrection.
- Finite, The.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nobody can be in the world unless he or she is born into the world. Yet, as Nicodemus asked, GHow can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the motherGs womb and be born?G The modern Christian needs to find some way of understanding resurrection, and the dogma of the resurrection of the body is vacuous unless we can relate it philosophically to our own world of experience. This book performs that act of relating by reading resurrection in the context of contemporary philosophy, notably Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. It shows how a phen
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Precis of finitude
- pt. 2. Toward a metamorphosis
- pt. 3. Phenomenology of the resurrection.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4650-7
- OCLC:
- 797844746
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