Apocalypse of truth : Heideggerian meditations
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Apocalypse of truth : Heideggerian meditations
The University of Chicago Press, 2021
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Apocalypse de la vérité
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Apocalypse de la vérité
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 Hoelderlin
23. The Last God"Only a god can still save us"
Meister Eckhart
The Adieu
Epilogue
Notes
List of Primary Sources
Index
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