We inhabit a time of crisis—totalitarianism, environmental collapse,
and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher Jean
Vioulac is invested in and worried by all of this, but his main
concern lies with how these phenomena all represent a crisis
within—and a threat to—thinking itself. In his
first book to be translated into English, Vioulac radicalizes
Heidegger’s understanding of truth as disclosure through the notion
of truth as apocalypse. This “apocalypse of truth” works as an
unveiling that reveals both the finitude and mystery of truth,
allowing a full confrontation with truth-as-absence. Engaging with
Heidegger, Marx, and St. Paul, as well as contemporary figures
including Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek,
Vioulac’s book presents a subtle, masterful exposition of his
analysis before culminating in a powerful vision of “the abyss of
the deity.” Here, Vioulac articulates a portrait of Christianity as
a religion of mourning, waiting for a god who has already passed by, a
form of ever-present eschatology whose end has always already taken
place. With a preface by Jean-Luc Marion, Apocalypse of Truth presents
a major contemporary French thinker to English-speaking audiences for
the first time.
Les mer
Heideggerian Meditations
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780226766874
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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