Carnal Hermeneutics
Published:
01 September 2015
Online ISBN:
9780823266951
Print ISBN:
9780823265886
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Philosophy at the Limit Philosophy at the Limit
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The Pascha of Animality The Pascha of Animality
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This Is My Body This Is My Body
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The Force of the Body The Force of the Body
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The Eucharistic Eros The Eucharistic Eros
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Abiding Abiding
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Chapter
This Is My Body: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Eucharist
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Pages
279–294
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Published:01 September 2015
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Falque, Emmanuel, 'This Is My Body: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Eucharist', in Richard Kearney, and Brian Treanor (eds), Carnal Hermeneutics, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (FUP) (New York, NY , 2015; online edn, Fordham Scholarship Online, 21 Jan. 2016), https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823265886.003.0017, accessed 19 July 2026.
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Abstract
This chapter takes as its subject nothing less than “everything involved in the Eucharist.” The author seeks to give a hermeneutic response to the phenomenological excess of sense over non-sense, of flesh over body, and the weakness of forgetting force, which are all part of the understanding of the Eucharist. This reading sees the viaticum as the joining in the union of bodies in Eucharistic communion, and places desire in relation to the “abiding” of the real presence in the Eucharist. In the Eucharistic communion, the communicant is “fully incorporated into God” such that her animality, corporeality, and desire and made meaningful and converted.
Subject
Philosophy of Mind
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Fordham Scholarship Online
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