Apocalypse of Truth

Heideggerian Meditations

Apocalypse of Truth
Jean-Luc Marion, Jean Vioulac, Matthew J Peterson
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h229 x 152mm - 208pg
3 May 2021 US
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9780226766737
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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 Zizek, 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.
"In and through a learned, historically far-reaching, and textually rigorous meditation on Heidegger' s diagnosis of our modern nihilism, Vioulac turns to the apocalyptic revelation of Saint Paul for truth that would undermine modernity' s subjection of all beings to the logic of production and management by means of rational calculation and technological power. In sharp contrast to such machination, wherein humans become--like everything else--interchangeable, Vioulac advances a thinking of the frailty and vulnerability of finite, embodied, and mortal existence, and of the love and mourning essential to such existence. Thanks to an admirably graceful and faithful translation by Matthew J. Peterson, English readers will encounter a challenging and original thinker who sheds light on the disasters of our capitalistic and technological age. "--Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara "In this magisterial study, Vioulac proposes a radical reversal of thought, employing Biblical inspiration and philosophical rigor. Apocalypse of Truth dares to tap into a counter-archive that reaches deeper and further back than Heidegger' s rethinking of truth as unconcealment, reviving the long-ignored idea of apocalypticism. What results is not only a stunning rereading of St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Hoelderlin, Hegel, and others, but also a subtle loosening of the mythological grip that Western ontology has too long imposed on its subjects. A tour de force in its own right, Vioulac' s book builds on the recent breakthroughs in phenomenological and post-phenomenological thought, bringing a fresh realignment with Christianity and the ' incarnation of truth' it invites us to wager anew. "--Hent de Vries, New York University
Jean Vioulac is a French philosopher who has taught at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and currently teaches at a high school outside Paris. In 2016 he received the Grand prix de philosophie from the Academie Francaise. Matthew J. Peterson is a doctoral candidate in the philosophy of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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