Crossing the Rubicon
Subtitle: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology
Edition: First Edition
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 1 June 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Passer le Rubicon: philosophie et théologie
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-6988-4
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Religion, philosophy
Description: In France today, philosophy—phenomenology in particular—finds itself in a paradoxical relation to theology. Some debate a “theological turn." Others disavow theological arguments as if such arguments would tarnish their philosophical integrity, while nevertheless carrying out theology in other venues. In Crossing the Rubicon, Emmanuel Falque seeks to end this face-off. Convinced that “the more one theologizes, the better one philosophizes," he proposes a counterblow by theology against phenomenology. Instead of another philosophy of “the threshold" or “the leap"—and through a retrospective and forward-looking examination of his own method—he argues that an encounter between the two disciplines will reveal their mutual fruitfulness and their true distinctive borders. Falque shows that he has made the crossing between philosophy and theology and back again with audacity and perhaps a little recklessness, knowing full well that no one thinks without exposing himself to risk.