The Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien

Phenomenology, Fragility, and Excess

Edited by Jeffrey Bloechl

Jean-Louis Chrétien was a philosopher, poet and theologian with an abiding intellectual wish to intervene in modern thought and culture in the name of a spiritual tradition. In his work, this becomes the ready source of much needed enrichment, improvement or even outright correction for modern thinking. Celebrated for his erudition, style and persistence with a limited number of key themes, Chrétien was close to, and often influenced, scholars including Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Remi Brague and Jean-Yves Lacoste. This volume contains leading scholars in the field of philosophy, theology and poetics, including Chrétien’s collaborators, successors, and Anglophone interpreters. They engage his work along its main lines, at once presenting it in summary fashion and exploring its strengths and weaknesses for our understanding of some of the topics and problems that held his prolonged attention, particularly the themes of fragility or vulnerability and excess or the absolute which appear in most of Chrétien’s works.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International

Pages: 224 •

978-1-5381-5321-5 • Hardback • October 2022 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-5381-5322-2 • eBook • October 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00) (coming soon)

Series: Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology, Religion / Philosophy, Religion / Theology

The Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien

Phenomenology, Fragility, and Excess

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Summary

Jean-Louis Chrétien was a philosopher, poet and theologian with an abiding intellectual wish to intervene in modern thought and culture in the name of a spiritual tradition. In his work, this becomes the ready source of much needed enrichment, improvement or even outright correction for modern thinking. Celebrated for his erudition, style and persistence with a limited number of key themes, Chrétien was close to, and often influenced, scholars including Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Remi Brague and Jean-Yves Lacoste. This volume contains leading scholars in the field of philosophy, theology and poetics, including Chrétien’s collaborators, successors, and Anglophone interpreters. They engage his work along its main lines, at once presenting it in summary fashion and exploring its strengths and weaknesses for our understanding of some of the topics and problems that held his prolonged attention, particularly the themes of fragility or vulnerability and excess or the absolute which appear in most of Chrétien’s works.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International

Pages: 224 •

978-1-5381-5321-5 • Hardback • October 2022 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-5381-5322-2 • eBook • October 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00) (coming soon)

Series: Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology, Religion / Philosophy, Religion / Theology

Author

Jeffrey Bloechl is associate professor of Philosophy at Boston College.He has previously edited volumes on Emmanuel Levinas and on religious and secular reason, was the founding editor of Levinas Studies: An Annual Review and translated the first book by Chretien to have appeared in English, The Unforgettable and the Unhoped-for.

Table of Contents

1. Jean-Luc Marion (Paris-Sorbonne / Chicago), [title TBD]

2. Jerome de Gramont (Institute Catholique de Paris), Blessed Failure

3. Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge University), The Cosmic Poetics of Jean-Louis Chrétien

4. Rudolf Bernet (emeritus, KU Leuven), The Moment of the Instant

5. Jeffrey Bloechl (Boston College), The Other Repetition

6. Emmanuel Falque (Institute Catholique de Paris), Adam, or the Ark of the Flesh

7. Emmanuel Housset (Université de Caen), The Body of the Response

8. Crina Gschwandtner (Fordham, University), Hospitality and Responsibility: The Possibility of Ethics in Jean-Louis Chrétien

9. Andrew Prevot (Boston College), Praying with Jean-Louis Chrétien

10. Stephen Lewis (Franciscan University of Steubenville), Jean-Louis Chrétien on Modern Narrative and Human Consciousness

Bibliography of works by Chrétien

Index

The Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien

Phenomenology, Fragility, and Excess

Edited by Jeffrey Bloechl

The Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien

Phenomenology, Fragility, and Excess

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