CiNii Books - Apocalypse of truth : Heideggerian meditations

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.

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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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