An Introduction to Jean-Yves Lacoste Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts Series

Introducing the thought of philosopher and theologian Jean-Yves Lacoste, this book provides an overview spanning Lacoste's earliest works on sacramentality to his latest work Etre en Danger (2011) in which Lacoste opens up the liturgical experience onto a spiritual experience of life. Schrijvers unfolds the logic of what Lacoste calls 'the liturgical experience' from its violent variety in Expérience et Absolu to the logic of love and love's possibility as it is developed in the later works. Throughout the book, the focus is on Lacoste's dialogue with Heidegger and through this his attempt to widen the scope of phenomenology to include the phenomenality of the divine.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Phenomenology of confession; Phenomenology of the body; Phenomenology of prayer; Phenomenology of conversion; Phenomenology of the Fool; The fate of the nonexperience; The world and the absence of art; Life as strong as death? Of being and danger; Conclusion: a phenomenology of (spiritual) life; Bibliography; Index.

Joeri Schrijvers is working as a postdoctoral researcher of the fund for scientific research-Flanders at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven. He is a member of the research group 'Theology in a Postmodern Context'. He is the author of Ontotheological Turnings? The Decentering of the Modern Subject in Recent French Phenomenology (SUNY, 2011) and has published numerous articles on Jean-Luc Nancy and Reiner Schürmann.