Phenomenology of Love as Event, A: Bultmann Beyond Heidegger

Rescuing Rudolf Bultmann from Heidegger’s shadow, Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere presents a philosophical reading of his theology, which reveals his unique phenomenology of love as an event. Bultmann (1884-1976) is often regarded as a mere footnote to Heidegger’s philosophy: a theologian whose thought was principally built on the Heideggerian analytic of human finitude.Yet, by reading Bultmann anew, in light of other continental philosophers’ engagement with Heidegger - from Jaspers and Levinas to Ricœur and Falque - this book rejects that idea as a misunderstanding.Instead it contends that Bultmann radically develops and even improves upon Heidegger’s phenomenology. Guiding the reader through his argument in a clear and compelling style, Cassidy-Deketelaere reveals how Bultmann understands the experience of love as not being limited to an empirical occurrence but rather having a truly transcendental scope: what phenomenologists would now call ‘event’.With this, Bultmann’s theology not o