A Phenomenology of Love as Event - Bultmann Beyond Heidegger

A Phenomenology of Love as Event: Bultmann Beyond Heidegger



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English | 2026 | ISBN: 1350538930 | 281 Pages | True PDF | 2 MB

Rescuing Rudolf Bultmann from Heidegger’s shadow, Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere presents a philosophical reading of his theology, which reveals his unique phenomenology of love as an event.

Bultmann (1884-1976) is often regarded as a mere footnote to Heidegger’s philosophy: a theologian whose thought was principally built on the Heideggerian analytic of human finitude. Yet, by reading Bultmann anew, in light of other continental philosophers’ engagement with Heidegger – from Jaspers and Levinas to Ricœur and Falque – this book rejects that idea as a misunderstanding. Instead it contends that Bultmann radically develops and even improves upon Heidegger’s phenomenology. Guiding the reader through his argument in a clear and compelling style, Cassidy-Deketelaere reveals how Bultmann understands the experience of love as not being limited to an empirical occurrence but rather having a truly transcendental scope: what phenomenologists would now call ‘event’.