Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Series Editor: John D. Caputo, Villanova University and Syracuse University

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy is devoted to the whole spectrum of contemporary continental studies: nineteenth century beginnings; classical phenomenology and existentialism; hermeneutics, critical theory, and structuralism; the many varieties of poststructuralist or postmodern thought, including the work of Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, Levinas, Foucault, and feminist theory; and Agamben, Badiou, Žižek, and debates about the new materialism. While the series is open to a wide variety of approaches to continental thought, it is particularly interested in those that address ethics, political philosophy, or the philosophy of religion. The series welcomes careful interpretive studies of the major figures and movements in contemporary continental philosophy, but it is also interested in original philosophical investigations that draw upon and are written from a continental perspective.

Series Board: James Bernauer, Drucilla Cornell, Thomas R. Flynn, Kevin Hart, Richard Kearney, Jean-Luc Marion, Adriaan Peperzak, Thomas Sheehan, Hent de Vries, Merold Westphal, Michael Zimmerman

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Murderous Consent

Murderous Consent

Marc Crépon, Michael Loriaux, Jacob Levi, James Martel

Marc Crépon

Translated by Michael Loriaux and Jacob Levi

Murderous Consent details our implication in violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit. Marc Crépon invites the reader to resist that implication by arguing for an ethicosmopolitics grounded in our receptivity to the pleas for assistance that the vulnerability and mortality of the other enjoin everywhere.

ISBN: 9780823283743

A Theology of Failure

A Theology of Failure

Marika Rose

Marika Rose

This book draws the work of Slavoj Žižek into conversation with the Christian mystical theological tradition in order to propose a materialist account of Christian identity as constituted by failure.

ISBN: 9780823284061

The Guide to Gethsemane

The Guide to Gethsemane

Emmanuel Falque, George Hughes

Emmanuel Falque

Translated by George Hughes

Anxiety, suffering and death are not simply the “ills” of our society, nor are they uniquely the product of a sick and sinful humanity. We must all some day confront them, and we continually...

ISBN: 9780823281954

Derrida after the End of Writing

Derrida after the End of Writing

Clayton Crockett

Clayton Crockett

This book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.

ISBN: 9780823277841

Questions of Phenomenology

Questions of Phenomenology

Françoise Dastur, Robert Vallier

Françoise Dastur

Translated by Robert Vallier

Françoise Dastur is well respected in France and Europe for her mastery of phenomenology as a movement and her clear and cogent explications of phenomenology in movement. These qualities are on...

ISBN: 9780823233748

Resistance of the Sensible World

Resistance of the Sensible World

Emmanuel Alloa, Jane Marie Todd, Renaud Barbaras

Emmanuel Alloa

Translated by Jane Marie Todd

An introduction to the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) which guides through the three main phases of his work. Both for beginners and for confirmed scholars.

ISBN: 9780823275687

Phenomenologies of Scripture

Phenomenologies of Scripture

Adam Y. Wells

Edited by Adam Y. Wells

A selection of essays by notable phenomenologists and biblical scholars on scriptural texts and interpretive methodology.

ISBN: 9780823275564

Believing in Order to See

Believing in Order to See

Jean-Luc Marion, Christina M. Gschwandtner

Jean-Luc Marion

Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner

A phenomenological reflection on central aspects of Christian revelation: the practice of faith, the obligation and role of the baptized Christian, the gift of the sacraments, the future of Catholicism, the role of the Christian intellectual, examined always in light of their inherent rationality and relationship to philosophical reason.

ISBN: 9780823275854

Transcendence and the Concrete

Transcendence and the Concrete

Jean Wahl, Alan D. Schrift, Ian Alexander Moore

Jean Wahl

Edited by Alan D. Schrift and Ian Alexander Moore

Jean Wahl occupies a singular position in 20th Century French philosophy, introducing, in many cases for the first time in France, the works of major German philosophers. This volume offers translations of some of Wahl’s most important and influential essays on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and Jaspers.

ISBN: 9780823273027

The Decolonial Abyss

The Decolonial Abyss

An Yountae

An Yountae

This book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self’s reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of politicizing the mystical figure from the standpoint of coloniality.

ISBN: 9780823273089

The Wedding Feast of the Lamb

The Wedding Feast of the Lamb

Emmanuel Falque, George Hughes

Emmanuel Falque

Translated by George Hughes

The abyss, force, chaos, eros, animality and even bestiality, are fundamental aspects of human beings that neither philosophy not theology can safely ignore. We need to question today "in a way that responds to the needs of our time" (Vatican II) the meaning of "this is my body." To say "this is my body," whether in the context of the intimate erotic dialogue of a wedded couple, or the gift of God in the eucharist, does not simply send us back to subjective experience of "the flesh." It is a cultural problem as well as one of religious belief. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" (John 6:52). "Hoc est corpus meum" has shaped all our culture as well as our modernity.

ISBN: 9780823270415

Words Fail

Colby Dickinson

Colby Dickinson

This book investigates the form of spirituality given shape in the intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection, concerned especially with matters of representation and failure.

ISBN: 9780823272846

Crossing the Rubicon

Crossing the Rubicon

Emmanuel Falque, Reuben Shank, Matthew Farley

Emmanuel Falque

Translated by Reuben Shank

Falque presents a theological critique of French phenomenology, engaging Levinas, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Bonaventure, Scotus, Aquinas... He advances a Catholic hermeneutic of the body and the voice, a phenomenology of believing, and a metaphysical movement from human finitude and contingency to conversion and transformation via the overlay of the God-man.

ISBN: 9780823269884

Walter Benjamin and Theology

Walter Benjamin and Theology

Colby Dickinson, Stéphane Symons

Edited by Colby Dickinson and Stéphane Symons

Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should. Walter Benjamin and Theology brings together some of the world’s most renowned experts to reassess the stake theology has in Benjamin’s writings, aiming for nothing less than the beginning of a new phase in Anglophone Benjamin scholarship.

ISBN: 9780823270187

Husserl's Missing Technologies

Husserl's Missing Technologies

Don Ihde

Don Ihde

Don Ihde, contemporary postphenomenological philosopher of science and technology—technoscience—examines the important philosophical role of Husserl, here in relation to technologies, and his classical phenomenology. With concrete analyses of both the science of Husserl’s time and a retrospective reading from new technoscience interpretations, scientific instruments, technologies of reading and writing, and new imaging technologies are discussed.

ISBN: 9780823269617

Quiet Powers of the Possible

Quiet Powers of the Possible

Tarek R. Dika, W. Chris Hackett, Richard Kearney

Tarek R. Dika and W. Chris Hackett

A book of interviews with contemporary French phenomenologists; introduces the reader to the present state of contemporary French phenomenology in all its dimensions through the voices of its most significant figures living today.

ISBN: 9780823264728

Aesthetics of Negativity

Aesthetics of Negativity

William S. Allen

William S. Allen

A rigorous and many-layered study of the works of Blanchot and Adorno in terms of the relation between negativity and autonomy in the work of art with particular reference to literature, which yields a thinking of materiality in language as an ambiguous force of critique and innovation.

ISBN: 9780823269280

Carnal Hermeneutics

Carnal Hermeneutics

Richard Kearney, Brian Treanor

Edited by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor

Carnal hermeneutics offers a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. It engages our finite, spatio-temporal being-in-the-world through an account of meanings involving corporeal sensation, orientation, and linguistic articulation, and transcends the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, arguing that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations.

ISBN: 9780823265893

Negative Ecstasies

Negative Ecstasies

Jeremy Biles, Kent L. Brintnall

Edited by Jeremy Biles and Kent L. Brintnall

Negative Ecstasies discusses the contribution and significance of the work of Georges Bataille to the contemporary study of religion and theology, collecting essays that examine specific case studies and make connections to other significant scholars in the field.

ISBN: 9780823265206

Commiserating with Devastated Things

Commiserating with Devastated Things

Jason M. Wirth

Jason M. Wirth

This study will attempt to understand, through both a careful reading of Kundera’s oeuvre as well as a consideration of the Continental philosophical tradition, the place that Kundera calls “the universe of the novel.” I argue that Kundera transforms—not applies—philosophical reflection within the art form of the novel.

ISBN: 9780823268207

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

Vanessa Lemm

Edited by Vanessa Lemm

Nietzsche advocates the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche.

ISBN: 9780823262878

The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments

The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments

Michael Naas

Michael Naas

The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida’s final seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign (2001-2003), as the explicit themes of the seminar, namely, sovereignty and the question of the animal, come to be supplemented and interrupted by questions of death, mourning, survival, the archive, and, especially, the end of the world.

ISBN: 9780823263295

The Trace of God

The Trace of God

Edward Baring, Peter E. Gordon

Edited by Edward Baring and Peter E. Gordon

The Trace of God treats Derrida's discussion and use of religious ideas. Examining his writings both early and late, it provides accounts of his engagement with the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, offering a variety of perspectives on the meaning of his work and its implications today.

ISBN: 9780823262106

There Is

Claude Romano, Michael B. Smith

Claude Romano

Translated by Michael B. Smith

“A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an ‘evential hermeneutics’ that takes as its starting point the life-changing...

ISBN: 9780823267156

Vladimir Jankélévitch

Vladimir Jankélévitch

Aaron T. Looney

Aaron T. Looney

Discusses the moral and metaphysical philosophy of Vladimir Jankélévitch, his reflections on the conditions for forgiveness, especially in light of the Shoah, and the temporality of forgiveness in its relation to creation, history, and memory.

ISBN: 9780823262960

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