Got religion?
Jeffrey Bloechl, associate professor of philosophy
Ph.D., Université catholique de Louvain
Representative publication: "Obscure Habit: Preambles to a Phenomenology of
Christian Existence," Phenomenology and Transcendence, edited by C. Cunningham and
Peter M. Candler, Jr. (SCM Press, 2007)
I am interested in the consequences of several modern developments, intellectual and cultural, for understanding our humanity. These include the ongoing and further emergence of our "secularity" (i.e., the this-worldly dimension of our existence) as it is expressed both by those who bring a religious perspective and those who do not. Despite the significant questions and criticisms offered by Freud and other psychoanalysts, it is my hypothesis that one cannot rule out a strictly religious interpretation of human experience.