Emmanuel Falque

Emmanuel Falque (born on November 7, 1963) is a French Catholic theologian and philosopher, currently a professor at the Catholic University of Paris. His work is a synthesis of medieval theology, philosophy of religion and the French phenomenology of Michel Henry, Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Marion. Thinker of the common Humanity, Falque makes of the finitude his field of investigation. His thought is still evolving, as the concept of the "Corps épandu", which delivers the anthropological-phenomenological synthesis, shows.

Biography

Emmanuel Falque was born at Neuilly, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. After his baccalaureate, he went to literary preparatory classes at Sainte-Marie. He defended his thesis in 1998 at the Paris-Sorbonne University, entitled L'entrée de Dieu en théologie: lecture phénoménologique de saint Bonaventure (Breviloquium).

Falque studies the Church Fathers, medieval philosophy and contemporary thought. Currently director of research at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Paris, of which he is honorary dean, Emmanuel Falque strives to overcome any theological reticence to contemporary phenomenology.

Works in English translation

• "The Phenomenological Act of Perscrutatio in the Proemium of Bonaventure's Commentary on the Sentences", Medieval Philosophy and Theology, No. 10 (2001), pp. 275–300.
• "Larvatus pro Deo : Jean-Luc's Marion Phenomenology and Theology." In: Kevin Hart (ed.), Counter-Experiences. Reading Jean-Luc Marion (2007), pp. 181–200.
• "Metaphysics and Theology in Tension. A Reading of Augustine's De Trinitate." In: Lieven Boeve (ed.), Augustin and Post Modern Thought: A New Alliance against Modernity? (2009), pp. 21–55.
• The Metamorphosis of Finitude. An Essay on Birth and Resurrection (2012)
• God, The Flesh and the Other, From Irenaeus to Duns Scotus (2015)
• "This is My Body: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Eucharist." In: Richard Kearney & Brian Treanor (eds.), Carnal Hermeneutics (2015), pp. 279–95.
• "Suffering Death." In: John Behr & Conor Cunningham (eds.), The Role of Death in Life (2015), pp. 45–55.
• "The Collision of Phenomenology and Theology." (Interview). In: Tarek R. Dika and W. Chris Hackett, Quiet Powers of the Possible, Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology (2016).
• "Khora or the Great Bifurcation: Discussion with Derrida", Louvain Studies, Vol. 39 (Winter 2015-2016), pp. 337–63.
• Crossing the Rubicon, The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology (2016)
• The Weeding Feast of the Lamb, Eros, Body and Eucharist (2016)

External links

• Works by Emmanuel Falque at Gallica