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

• Autore: Falque Emmanuel
• Pubblicazione: US, : Fordham University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Birth (Philosophy); Finite, The; Resurrection; Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion; Speculative Philosophy
• Altri autori: HughesGeorge
• 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 Précis 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Metamorphosis of Finitude
• ISBN: 0-8232-4650-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248222303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy