Crossing the Rubicon: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology

214 Pages·2016·1.758 MB·English

by  Emmanuel Falque, Reuben Shank, Matthew Farley

Crossing the Rubicon
Series Board
James Bernauer
Drucilla Cornell
Th omas R. Flynn
Kevin Hart
Richard Kearney
Jean-Luc Marion
Adriaan Peperzak
Th omas Sheehan
Hent de Vries
Merold Westphal
Michael Zimmerman
John D. Caputo, series editor
PERSPECTIVES IN
CONTINENTAL
PHILOSOPHY
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E M M A N U E L FA LQU E
Crossing the Rubicon
Th e Borderlands of
Philosophy and Th eology
TRANSLATED BY REUBEN SHANK
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York (cid:2) 2016
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In honor of Blandine Larnaud (1938–2012)
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Contents
Introduction
Matthew Farley 1
Opening 15
Th e Great Crossing, 15 • §1. A Breakthrough, 16 •
§2. A Crossing, 18 • §3. An Experience, 24
PART I: INTERPRETING
1. Is Hermeneutics Fundamental? 29
§4. Th e Hermeneutical Relief, 31 • §5. Confessional
Hermeneutics, 40 • §6. Toward a Phenomenality
of the Text, 50
2. For a Hermeneutic of the Body and the Voice 55
§7. Aphonal Th ought, 57 • §8. Th e Voice Is the
Phenomenon, 66 • §9. Th e Voice Th at Embodies, 70
PART II: DECIDING
3. Always Believing 77
§10. A Belief at the Origin, 80 • §11. Th e Prejudice of the Absence
of Prejudices, 86 • §12. Faith and Nonfaith, 89
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