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Embodiment Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying Edited by Ramona Fotiade, David Jasper and Olivier Salazar-Ferrer EmbodimEnt this book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence, subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection and eternal life. This page has been left blank intentionally Embodiment Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying Edited by Ramona FotiaDe University of Glasgow, UK DaViD JasPeR University of Glasgow, UK oLiVieR saLazaR-FeRReR University of Glasgow, UK © Ramona Fotiade, David Jasper and olivier salazar-Ferrer 2014 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Ramona Fotiade, David Jasper and olivier salazar-Ferrer have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing Limited ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court east 110 Cherry street Union Road suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, Vt 05401-3818 surrey, GU9 7Pt Usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: embodiment : phenomenological, religious, and deconstructive views on living and dying / edited by Ramona Fotiade, David Jasper, olivier salazar-Ferrer. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-1-4724-1052-8 (hardcover) – isBn 978-1-4724-1053-5 (ebook) – isBn 978-1-4724-1054-2 (epub) 1. incarnation. 2. Human body–Religious aspects. 3. Human body, i. Fotiade, Ramona, editor of compilation. BL510.e43 2014 202'.2–dc23 2013031534 isBn 9781472410528 (hbk) isBn 9781472410535 (ebk-PDF) isBn 9781472410542 (ebk-ePUB) III Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, Dt1 1HD Contents Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Part I: MIchel henry – the PhenoMenology of IncarnatIon 1 The Search for a New Anthropological Paradigm: Michel Henry’s Reflections on Incarnation 9 Jean Leclercq 2 The Incarnation of the Word and the A Priori of the Flesh: Michel Henry and the Problem of ‘Appearing Through’ 21 Grégori Jean 3 Presentation of Michel Henry’s Notes on the Incarnation 35 Grégori Jean, Jean Leclercq and Elvira Vitouchanskaia Preparatory Notes to Incarnation: ‘The Archaeology of the Flesh, Finitude and the Question of Salvation’ 38 Michel Henry 4 The Incarnation of Life: The Phenomenology of Birth in Henry and Merleau-Ponty 49 Renato Boccali 5 Reflections on the Revalorisation of the Body in the Material Phenomenology of Michel Henry 65 Olivier Salazar-Ferrer Part II: Jean-luc MarIon – Sacred and Profane InterPretatIonS of the Body 6 On the Erotic Phenomenon 79 Jean-Luc Marion 7 Aesthetics and Corporal Strategies of Eros 91 Aldo Marroni vi Embodiment 8 From Embodiment to the Saturated Language 107 Javier Bassas Vila 9 Cur Deus Homo? The Irrational Residue of Being: Reflections on Jean-Luc Marion and Shestov 117 Ramona Fotiade 10 The Eucharistic Body 131 David Jasper 11 Being Embodied and Being towards Death 143 Alexander Broadie Part III: Jean-luc nancy – a deconStructIve PerSPectIve 12 Verbum Caro Factum 157 Jean-Luc Nancy 13 Adoration and Phenomenology: The Dawn of an Adorable World 163 Pierre-Philippe Jandin 14 Between ‘God’s Phallus’ and ‘The Body of Christ’: The Embodied World of Contemporary African Literature in Achille Mbembe and Jean-Luc Nancy 171 Michael Syrotinski 15 ‘I Don’t Believe It!’: Faith, Belief and Embodiment in Pascal, Nietzsche and Heidegger 189 Paul Bishop 16 The Embodied Philosophy of Jean Grenier 217 Toby Garfitt Index 231 Notes on Contributors Javier Bassas Vila – Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, translator of the works of Jean-Luc Marion, he was a French Interdisciplinary Group Visiting Scholar, at the Northwestern University in 2010/2011. He received his PhD from the Université de la Sorbonne-Paris IV and the Universitat de Barcelona (2009). He specialises in phenomenology and its relation to language and literature. More recently he has been working on phenomenology and politics. He has translated into Spanish books by J.-L. Marion, J. Derrida, C. Malabou, and edited books by J. Rancière, A. Badiou and S. Žižek, among many others. He is co-editor of the collection ‘Ensayo’ (Essay) published by Ellago Ediciones and editor of the collection ‘Pensamiento Atiempo’ at Ediciones Casus Belli. Paul Bishop – Professor in German at the University of Glasgow, he has written extensively on Modern German Thought and the interaction between philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis. His recent publications include: Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition (2004), Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller and Jung (2007) and The Archaic: The Past in the Present (2011). Renato Boccali – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan and Director of the UNESCO Research Department of Cultural and Comparative Studies on the Imaginary. His research interests and publications draw on the hermeneutic-phenomenological tradition and its applications to the study of the interaction between literature and philosophy with particular reference to theories and practices in contemporary visual art. He has written extensively on Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Ricoeur, Blanchot and Derrida. He is the author of L’Eco-logia del visibile: Merleau-Ponty, teoretico del immanenza transcendentale (2010). Alexander Broadie – Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy and History at the University of Glasgow, he is an internationally renowned specialist of scholastic theology, who has been at the centre of the recent revival of interest in the Scottish Enlightenment and in the work of medieval theologians. He has published extensively on Duns Scotus, William Ockham and Thomas Reid, and is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (2003). His other recent publications include: A History of Scottish Philosophy (2009) and Agreeable Connections: Scottish Enlightenment Links with France (2012). viii Embodiment Ramona Fotiade – Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow, she has written extensively on the existential philosophy of Lev Shestov and Benjamin Fondane from the point of view of their critique of Husserlian phenomenology and their influential conception of life and faith in the relationship between man and God. Her publications on this topic include: Conceptions of the Absurd: From Surrealism to the Existential Thought of Shestov and Fondane (2001), The Tragic Discourse: Shestov’s and Fondane’s Existential Thought (2006) and Léon Chestov et Vladimir Jankélévitch: du tragique à l’ineffable (2011). She has been entrusted with the publication of the annotated critical edition of Shestov’s complete works currently undertaken by Le Bruit du Temps publishers in Paris. So far three volumes have been published: Le Pouvoir des clés (2010), Athènes et Jérusalem (2011) and Dostoïevski et Nietzsche: La Philosophie de la tragédie (2012). Toby Garfitt – Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College (Oxford), where he teaches French Language and Literature, with a special interest in Christian writers of the twentieth century, he has a longstanding involvement with the Association européenne François Mauriac, and has written extensively on Jean Grenier and Albert Camus. His recent publications include: Jean Grenier – un écrivain et un maître (2010) and Jean Grenier–Jean Guéhenno: Correspondance 1927–1969 (2011). Michel Henry (1922–2002) – Professor of Philosophy, University of Montpellier, writer and author of a highly influential phenomenology of life which provides an original interpretation of Christianism and Incarnation. Some of his most celebrated books on this topic include: I Am The Truth. For a Philosophy of Christianism (1996), Incarnation. A Philosophy of the Flesh (2000), Words of Christ (2002), Phenomenology of Life, vol. I-III (2003–2004). He has been brought to the attention of the anglophone specialist audience in the wake of the polemic sparked by Dominique Janicaud’s volume, The Theological Turn in French Phenomenology (1991), which focused on Michel Henry’s philosophy of Christianism. He has recently made the subject of monographic studies in English such as Michael O’Sullivan’s Michel Henry: Incarnation, Barbarism and Belief – An Introduction to the Work of Michel Henry (2006). Pierre-Philippe Jandin – Professor of Philosophy and author of Jean-Luc Nancy: Retracer le politique (2012), he has directed a research seminar at the Collège international de philosophie devoted to Nancy’s work on the philosophy of religion, L’Adoration, and has written several essays on Levinas, Blanchot, Derrida and Lacoue-Labarthe. David Jasper – Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow is the author of highly original interdisciplinary works that seek to articulate a postmodern theology incorporating views ranging from those of the Notes on Contributors ix earliest Christian theologians (the Fathers of the Desert, such as St Anthony) to the conception of the writers on the ‘deserts’ of the modern world, both geographical and interior. His recent publications include: The Sacred Desert (2004), The Sacred Body (2009) and The Sacred Community (2012). Grégori Jean – Professor of Philosophy and Researcher at the Belgian Scientific Research Centre (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique Belge FRS- FNRS), currently working in the Michel Henry Archives in Louvain and in the Research Centre on Phenomenology at the Catholic University of Louvain. His recent publications include: Quotidienneté et ontologie: Recherches sur la différence phénoménologique (2011), Le Quotidien en situations: Enquête sur les phénomènes sociaux (2012) and the preface and annotations to Michel Henry’s Notes préparatoires à L’Essence de la manifestation: la subjectivité (2012). Jean Leclercq – Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain, he is the director of the Michel Henry Archives and has published extensively on Michel Henry and phenomenology. He has recently collaborated with Olivier Salazar-Ferrer on a volume gathering a series of previously unpublished interviews with Michel Henry that came out in a critical annotated edition with De Corlevour Publishers in 2010. His other publications include: Phénoménologies littéraires de l’écriture de soi (edited volume in collaboration with Nicolas Monseu, 2009) and Cahiers Michel Henry (2009). Jean-Luc Marion – Professor of Theology at the Sorbonne (Paris) and at the University of Chicago, he is a member of the prestigious Académie française and one of the best-known living historians of religions and philosophers in both francophone and anglophone countries. He is the author of several landmark volumes that have prompted significant conceptual shifts in the study of Christian theology gaining the reputation of the most influential works in the field worldwide: The Idol and the Distance (1977), God without Being (1982, reprinted in 2013) The Crossing of the Visible (1991), and more recently, The Erotic Phenomenon (2004) and Certitudes négatives (2010). Aldo Marroni – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pescara, he has written extensively on the interactions between aesthetics, ontology and theology with particular reference to the works of Pierre Klossowski, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. His recent research projects focus on the notions of the body and of the flesh, on sensuality and eroticism in art, philosophy and literature. His publications include: Klossowski prossimo moi (1989), Pierre Klossowski: sessualità, vizio e complotto nella filosofia (1999), L’Enigma dell’impuro: La sfida dell’estetico nella società (2007) and L’Arte dei simulacri: Le Possessioni estetiche di Pierre Klossowski (2012).
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