Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith
Francois Laruelle, "Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith"
English | ISBN: 1350104310 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1350104310 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In this new translation, Laruelle offers a serious and rigorous challenge to contemporary theological thought, calling into question the dominant understanding of the relation between Christ, theology, and philosophy, not only from a theoretical, but also political perspective.
He achieves this through an inversion of St Paul's reading of Christ, through which the ground for Christianity shifts. It is no longer the 'event' of the resurrection, as philosophical and theological operation (Badiou's St Paul), so much as the Risen Himself that forms the starting point for a non-philosophical confession. Between the Greek and the Jew, Laruelle places the Gnostic-Christ in order to disrupt and overturn such theologico-philosophical interpretations of the resurrection and set the Risen within the radical immanence of Man-in-Person.
Forming the basis for a non-Christianity,
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