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An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics

By Noelle Vahanian , Clayton Crockett , Ward Blanton , Jeffrey W. Robbins

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
0231176236, 9780231176231
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
961 kB (984281 bytes)
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Pages
224\221
Time added
2016-08-24 08:01:21
Philosophy;Religious Studies;Religion & Spirituali

Description

An Insurrectionist Manifesto contains four insurrectionary gospels based on Martin Heidegger's philosophical model of the fourfold: earth and sky, gods and mortals. Challenging religious dogma and dominant philosophical theories, they offer a cooperative, world-affirming political theology that promotes new life through not resurrection but insurrection. The insurrection in these gospels unfolds as a series of miraculous yet worldly practices of vital affirmation. Since these routines do not rely on fantasies of escape, they engender intimate transformations of the self along the very coordinates from which they emerge. Enacting a comparative and contagious postsecular sensibility, these gospels draw on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Giorgio Agamben, Catherine Malabou, François Laruelle, Peter Sloterdijk, and Gilles Deleuze yet rejuvenate scholarship in continental philosophy, critical race theory, the new materialisms, speculative realism, and nonphilosophy. They think beyond the sovereign force of the one to initiate a radical politics "after" God.

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