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Trevor B. Williams, “The Breath of the Possible: Emmanuel Falque on Kierkegaard and the Modality of the Resurrection,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 81, no. 3 (2025): 765–802, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2025_81_3_0765.
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Trevor B. Williams |
| Abstract | Emmanuel Falque’s interest in possibility is infused with the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, notably in his monograph titled Hors phénomène (2021). This essay engages in a close reading of Falque’s authorship and argues that his approach to the possible accounts for the animating features of what he calls the “resurrectional modality.” Indeed, by speaking of the possible, Falque addresses the dynamic circumstances—the necessities—of our existence but also fosters a Christian way of being in the world that can negotiate the complexities of finitude in the things that we do not choose, the weight of anxiety, or the calamities of trauma. The believer lives finitude according to the impossible of theology. This argument ultimately clarifies that the transformation of the believer involves two impossibles, one of philosophy and the other of theology, which was evident in Falque’s thought before Hors phénomène but not clearly laid out. The first section of this essay begins with an examination of possibility in both Kierkegaard and Falque. Then, in the second section, this essay turns to an in-depth interpretation of Hors phénomène and its use of Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death. |
| Date | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| Rights | © 2025 by Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural |
| Volume | 81 |
| Pages | 765-802 |
| Publication | Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |
| DOI | 10.17990/RPF/2025_81_3_0765 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Journal Abbr | RPF |
| ISSN | 0870-5283 ; 2183-461X |
| Date Added | 10/29/2025, 9:29:37 PM |
| Modified | 10/29/2025, 11:18:53 PM |
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