02398nam 2200577 a 450 991081624610332120200520144314.00-8232-4650-7(CKB)3240000000065552(EBL)3239629(OCoLC)797844746(SSID)ssj0000726906(PQKBManifestationID)11472919(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000726906(PQKBWorkID)10685107(PQKB)11621338(MiAaPQ)EBC3239629(EXLCZ)99324000000006555220120302d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe metamorphosis of finitude an essay on birth and resurrection /Emmanuel Falque ; translated by George Hughes1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20121 online resource (214 p.)Perspectives in continental philosophyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8232-3920-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Precis of finitude -- pt. 2. Toward a metamorphosis -- pt. 3. Phenomenology of the resurrection.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 phenPerspectives in continental philosophy.Birth (Philosophy)ResurrectionFinite, TheBirth (Philosophy)Resurrection.Finite, The.128Falque Emmanuel1963-525279Hughes George973921MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816246103321The Metamorphosis of Finitude2216713UNINA