{"product_id":"9781350104242","title":"Clandestine Theology : A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eClandestine Theology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Francois Laruelle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForming the basis for a non-Christianity, \u003ci\u003eClandestine Theology\u003c\/i\u003e offers a more radical deconstruction of Christianity, resting upon the last identity of Man and the humanity of Christ as opposed to endless deferral or difference (Nancy) or the universalising economy of Ideas and Events (Badiou).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laruelle's questioning of the dualistic arbitrariness of all philosophies inevitably returns us to a monism that is theological, and an immediacy of experience that is religious.  His consequent 'clandestine' engagement with Christianity is a provocation that no contemporary theologian should ignore.” —\u003ci\u003eCatherine Pickstock, Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eClandestine Theology\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest work of one of the most important and radical philosophers today. François Laruelle has radicalized philosophy by ridding it of its principle of self-sufficiency and by bringing it back to its metaphysical roots and simultaneously closer to the practice and posture of scientific thought. His theology is a surprising yet perfectly consistent part of his entire non-philosophical project also called the non-standard philosophy.” —\u003ci\u003eKaterina Kolozova, Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University American College - Skopje, North Macedonia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350104242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40793011257550,"sku":"9781350104242","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_7ae978b0-47ad-44c1-9411-eddbba8e48be.jpg?v=1642400697","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350104242","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}