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A Lesson in Heresy

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Future Christ

A Lesson in Heresy

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Future Christ is one of the first English translations of the work of François Laruelle, one of the most exciting voices in contemporary French philosophy and the creator of the practice of 'non-philosophy'.

In this work Laruelle draws on material from the traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Gnosticism, but he does so by suspending their authority. This adventure in non-philosophy does not claim to think for religion, but from it as material and with disinterest towards its self-given status as ultimate authority. This provocative, yet remarkably accessible book introduces philosophy to the lessons of heresy and makes use of them in a non-philosophical "dualysis" of messianism and apocalypticism. Laruelle investigates the "heretic question", analogous to but historically distinguished from the "Jewish question", to develop a "non-Christian science" that struggles against and for our World. Future Christ thus opens up novel ways of thinking within existing religious and philosophical thought and marks an incisive and wide-ranging non-philosophical engagement with key contemporary debates in philosophy and theology.

Table of Contents

The Philosopher and the Heretic: Translator's Introduction \ The Triptych: Author's Foreword \ Glossary Raisonné: Rules for Writing Non-Philosophy (Vocabulary and Syntax) \ 1. Future Christianity \ 2. Introducing Philosophy to Heresy \ 3. The Past Foreclosed to Memory \ 4. Persecution and Revelation \ 5. The Last Prophet or Man-Messiah \ 6. Towards Non-Christian Science \ Bibliography \ Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Feb 17 2011
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 184
ISBN 9781441118332
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Francois Laruelle

François Laruelle is a French philosopher formerly…

Translator

Anthony Paul Smith

Anthony Paul Smith received his doctorate from the…

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