Embodiment

Contents: Introduction; Part I Michel Henry - the Phenomenology of Incarnation: The search for a new anthropological paradigm: Michel Henry's reflections on incarnation, Jean Leclercq; The incarnation of the word and the a priori of the flesh, Gregori Jean; Preparatory notes to incarnation: the archaeology of the flesh, finitude and the question of salvation, Michel Henry (with a presentation by Gregori Jean, Jean Leclercq and Elvira Vitouchanskaya); The incarnation of life: the phenomenology of birth in Henry and Merleau-Ponty, Renato Boccali; Reflections on the re-evaluation of the body in the material phenomenology of Michel Henry, Olivier Salazar-Ferrer. Part II Jean-Luc Marion - Sacred and Profane Interpretations of the Body: The erotic phenomenon, Jean-Luc Marion; Aesthetics and corporal strategies of Eros, Aldo Marroni; From embodiment to the saturated language, Javier Basas Vila; Cur deus homo? The irrational residue of being (reflections on Jean-Luc Marion and Lev Shestov), Ramona Fotiade; The eucharistic body, David Jasper; Being embodied and being toward death, Alexander Broadie. Part III Jean-Luc Nancy - a Deconstructive Perspective: Verbum caro factum, Jean-Luc Nancy; The dawn of an adorable world, Pierre-Philippe Jandin; Between 'God's phallus' and 'the body of Christ': the embodied world of contemporary African literature in Achille Mbembe and Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael Syrotinski; 'I don't believe it!' Faith, belief and embodiment in Pascal, Nietzsche and Heidegger, Paul Bishop; The embodied philosophy of Jean Grenier, Toby Garfitt; Index.