Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: The French Debate Book

Worth it purely for Janicaud's devastating critique of the theological turn in phenomenology, to which the other essays in the volume are not responses, but merely illustrative examples of the theological tendency. The so-called theological turn in phenomenology was a betrayal of phenomenology precisely because it had nothing whatsoever to do with openness to theological phenomena simply and as such, but instead was merely an attempt to pass off as philosophy as much Christian theology as the market would bear. Phenomenology was chosen for this task, it would seem, purely for its currency in French intellectual life and its plasticity.