Apocalypse of Truth: Heideggerian Meditations
Jean Vioulac
Abstract
We inhabit a time of crisis — totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. The author of this book 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, the author 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 confrontat ... More
We inhabit a time of crisis — totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. The author of this book 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, the author 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 Žižek, the book presents a subtle, masterful exposition of the author's analysis before culminating in a powerful vision of “the abyss of the deity.” Here, the book 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. The book presents a major contemporary French thinker to English-speaking audiences for the first time.
Keywords:
truth,
apocalypse,
Heidegger,
Marx,
St. Paul,
Giorgio Agamben,
Alain Badiou,
Slavoj Žižek,
Christianity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226766737 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: January 2022 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226766874.001.0001 |
