François Laruelle
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231167246
- eISBN:
- 9780231538961
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231167246.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This book targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and explores the radical potential of Christ, whose “crossing” disrupts their circular ...
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This book targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and explores the radical potential of Christ, whose “crossing” disrupts their circular discourse. It is built upon the idea of “nonphilosophy,” or “nonstandard philosophy.” This is a way of thinking that goes past the theoretical limits of Western philosophy to realize new relations among religion, science, politics, and art. The book describes a Christ who is not the authoritative figure conjured by academic theology, the Apostles or the Catholic Church. Instead He is the embodiment of generic man, founder of a science of humans and the herald of a gnostic messianism that calls forth an immanent faith. The book inserts quantum science into religion and recasts the temporality of the cross, the entombment and the resurrection, arguing that it is God who is sacrificed on the cross so that equals in faith may be born. Positioning itself against orthodox religion and naive atheism alike, the book is a heretical experiment that ties religion tightly to the human experience and the lived world.Less
This book targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and explores the radical potential of Christ, whose “crossing” disrupts their circular discourse. It is built upon the idea of “nonphilosophy,” or “nonstandard philosophy.” This is a way of thinking that goes past the theoretical limits of Western philosophy to realize new relations among religion, science, politics, and art. The book describes a Christ who is not the authoritative figure conjured by academic theology, the Apostles or the Catholic Church. Instead He is the embodiment of generic man, founder of a science of humans and the herald of a gnostic messianism that calls forth an immanent faith. The book inserts quantum science into religion and recasts the temporality of the cross, the entombment and the resurrection, arguing that it is God who is sacrificed on the cross so that equals in faith may be born. Positioning itself against orthodox religion and naive atheism alike, the book is a heretical experiment that ties religion tightly to the human experience and the lived world.
Daniel Colucciello Barber
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748686360
- eISBN:
- 9780748697144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686360.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Chapter 5 addresses the paradox generated by immanence’s dual sense as both ontological determination of production and historically determinate product, or as both affirmation of what is and ...
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Chapter 5 addresses the paradox generated by immanence’s dual sense as both ontological determination of production and historically determinate product, or as both affirmation of what is and creation of the new. It argues that if this dual sense of immanence does not find some manner of mediation, then immanence begins to function transcendently. An articulation of the mediation of immanence is found by drawing on Adorno’s claim that the experience of suffering must become a condition of thought, such that there emerges a zone of nonidentity between the conditioned (historically determinate experience of suffering) and the unconditioned (power to exceed what is given). This proposal is elaborated by way of a concept of metaphilosophy, which makes the expression of pre-existing thought’s complicity in suffering into the condition of possibility for creation.Less
Chapter 5 addresses the paradox generated by immanence’s dual sense as both ontological determination of production and historically determinate product, or as both affirmation of what is and creation of the new. It argues that if this dual sense of immanence does not find some manner of mediation, then immanence begins to function transcendently. An articulation of the mediation of immanence is found by drawing on Adorno’s claim that the experience of suffering must become a condition of thought, such that there emerges a zone of nonidentity between the conditioned (historically determinate experience of suffering) and the unconditioned (power to exceed what is given). This proposal is elaborated by way of a concept of metaphilosophy, which makes the expression of pre-existing thought’s complicity in suffering into the condition of possibility for creation.
Daniel Colucciello Barber
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748686360
- eISBN:
- 9780748697144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686360.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Chapter 6 uses the concept of immanent belief as a means of further articulating the concept of metaphilosophy. Immanent belief is belief that takes as its object not another world, nor a transformed ...
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Chapter 6 uses the concept of immanent belief as a means of further articulating the concept of metaphilosophy. Immanent belief is belief that takes as its object not another world, nor a transformed world, but solely this world as it is. Transcendent determinations of thought’s relation to the world are precluded through the installation of an immanent circuit between thought and the world that affects it. This is an open circuit: the world is too much for thought as it is presently configured, but precisely for this reason the world forces thought to encounter what is unthought in immanence. The chapter shows how the problematisation of relations constituting the present enables the generation of new relations. These new relations – by way of art, philosophy, and fabulation – produce real beings of thought that break with the present.Less
Chapter 6 uses the concept of immanent belief as a means of further articulating the concept of metaphilosophy. Immanent belief is belief that takes as its object not another world, nor a transformed world, but solely this world as it is. Transcendent determinations of thought’s relation to the world are precluded through the installation of an immanent circuit between thought and the world that affects it. This is an open circuit: the world is too much for thought as it is presently configured, but precisely for this reason the world forces thought to encounter what is unthought in immanence. The chapter shows how the problematisation of relations constituting the present enables the generation of new relations. These new relations – by way of art, philosophy, and fabulation – produce real beings of thought that break with the present.
