Apocalypse of Truth

Heideggerian Meditations

Jean Vioulac (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-76673-7 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Jean Vioulac is a French philosopher who has taught at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and currently teaches at a high school outside Paris. In 2016 he received the Grand prix de philosophie from the Académie Française. Matthew J. Peterson is a doctoral candidate in the philosophy of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Preface Jean-Luc Marion
Translator’s Note Matthew J. Peterson
Chapter 1. Clarifications §1. Clairvoyance, Evidence, Lucidity
§2. Sufficiency and Faultiness
§3. History and Determination: Destiny
§4. Language and Community
Chapter 2. From the Equal to the Same §5. Machination
§6. Cyberspace
§7. Equalization
§8. Equalization and Appropriation
Chapter 3. Truth and Its Destiny §9. Ontology and Truth
§10. Abyss and Mystery
§11. Origin and Beginning
§12. Decay of Truth
§13. Safeguard of Truth
§14. Teleology and Eschatology
Chapter 4. Apocalypse and Truth §15. The Concept of Apocalypse
§16. Pauline Thought of the Apocalypse
§17. The Apocalyptic Regrounding of Truth
Chapter 5. On the Edge of the Abyss §18. Apocalypse of the West
§19. Poetics of Truth
Chapter 6. Abyss of the Deity §20. The Name of the Prophet
§21. The Death of God
§22. Friedrich Hölderlin
§23. The Last God“Only a god can still save us”
Meister Eckhart
The Adieu
Epilogue

Notes

List of Primary Sources

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2021
Übersetzer	Matthew J. Peterson
Vorwort	Jean-Luc Marion
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-226-76673-X / 022676673X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-76673-7 / 9780226766737
Zustand	Neuware