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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463590303321

Autore

Falque Emmanuel

Titolo

The Metamorphosis of Finitude [[electronic resource] ] : An Essay on Birth and Resurrection

Pubbl/distr/stampa

US, : Fordham University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8232-4650-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

HughesGeorge

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Birth (Philosophy)

Finite, The

Resurrection

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Speculative Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Preface: The Beaune Altarpiece, or "The Germination of the Resurrected"; Introduction; PART I PreĢcis of Finitude; 1. Impassable Immanence; 2. From Time to Time; 3. Is There a Drama of Atheist Humanism?; PART II Toward a Metamorphosis; 4. Resurrection and the Over-resurrection of the Body; 5. The Resurrection Changes Everything; 6. The Incorporation of the Human Being; PART III Phenomenology of the Resurrection; 7. The World Become Other; 8. From Time to Eternity; 9. A Flesh for Rebirth; Conclusion; Notes; Index of Names

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Sommario/riassunto

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