Jean-Luc Nancy after the Theological Turn

Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere is a Research Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.

• Foreword, Emmanuel FalqueAcknowledgementsNote on the TextList of Abbreviations IntroductionPart I: Givenness and Revelation 1. The Phenomenon of Revelation2. The Depth of Reason3. The Experience of FaithPart II: Embodiment and Incarnation4. Henry’s Swerve of the Flesh5. Falque’s Resistance of the Body6. Nancy’s Extension of the SoulConclusionReferencesIndex

This wonderful study of Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstruction of Christianity yields not only a deeper understanding of kenosis and incarnation—it prompts a rethinking of the very conditions by which God might reveal Godself, and far beyond trends that have been popularized in the past half-century. By revisiting varied notions of a phenomenology of revelation alongside the possibility of Christian atheism, Deketelaere provides us with a phenomenology of kenosis as an alternative to the ‘theological turn’ in phenomenology, illustrating differences between key theological (revelation, incarnation) and phenomenological (givenness, embodiment) terms that are often wrongly conflated. This work is simultaneously a profound challenge to those seeking to plant a theological flag in the lands of phenomenology and an offering of profound new ways to think faith through a renewed encounter with religious experience.