The Philosophy of Emmanuel Falque: Finitude and Incarnation

This volume provides the first comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of key contemporary French thinker, Emmanuel Falque.Dedicating each chapter to the main themes in his thought, this book unpacks Falque’s methodology, anthropology, phenomenology, Christian philosophy, and notions of embodiment, and further demonstrates how the concept of ‘incarnation’ is Falque’s guiding thread throughout. Following Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion, continental philosophy of religion has to a large extent become a philosophy of religious experience.Emmanuel Falque, however, leads a new generation of philosophers urging a more careful consideration of human finitude, the interaction between philosophy and theology, and the position of atheism.Offering not just an alternative way of doing philosophy and theology, Falque argues that thinking itself exists in the transformation of one by the other. The Philosophy of Emmanuel Falque presupposes no detailed knowledge of Falque or topics animatin