The Book of Experience
From Anselm of Canterbury to Bernard of Clairvaux
Series: Explorations in Philosophy and Theology;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 24 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350386532
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Long description:
Emmanuel Falque, one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today, takes us by the hand into the very heart of 12th-century monastic spirituality.
Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Experience weaves together contemporary phenomenological questions with medieval theology, revealing undiscovered dialogues already underway between Hugh of St. Victor and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, between Richard of St. Victor and Emmanuel Levinas, between Aelred of Rievaulx and Michel Henry, and not least between Bernard of Clairvaux and the trio of Descartes, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Marion, consummating in a masterful phenomenological reading of Bernard's sermons on the Song of Songs.
Whether it is a question of 'the idea that comes to God' (Anselm of Canterbury) or actively 'feeling oneself fully alive' (Aelred of Rievaulx or Bernard of Clairvaux), Falque uses these encounters to shed light on both parties, medieval and modern, theological and philosophical.
Leading us through works of art, landscapes, architectures, and liturgies, this major contemporary philosopher of religion clarifies mysteries and discovers experience lying at the heart of the medieval tradition.
Table of Contents:
Opening
Introduction: Talking About Experience
Part I: The Theophanic Argument, or Experience in Thought: Anselm of Canterbury
1. Of God Who Comes to Mind
2. The Theophanic Argument
3. The Debt for the Gift
Part II: Hermeneutics and Phenomenology or the Experience of the World: Hugh and Richard of Saint-Victor
4. God an "Open Book"
5. To Live One's Body
6. The Third Party of Love
Part III: Affectivity and Spirituality or Experience in Affects: Aelred of Rievaulx and Bernard of Clairvaux
7. To Feel Oneself Fully Alive
8. Experience and Empathy
9. Openness [apérité] and Freedom
Epilogue: Hold Fast to Humankind
Index
