An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture) - Softcover

Blanton, Ward; Crockett, Clayton; Robbins, Jeffrey; Vahanian, Noëlle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231176236 ISBN 13: 9780231176231

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2016

Synopsis

An Insurrectionist Manifesto contains four insurrectionary gospels based on Martin Heidegger's philosophical model of the fourfold: earth and sky, gods and mortals. Challenging religious dogma and dominant philosophical theories, they offer a cooperative, world-affirming political theology that promotes new life through not resurrection but insurrection. The insurrection in these gospels unfolds as a series of miraculous yet worldly practices of vital affirmation. Since these routines do not rely on fantasies of escape, they engender intimate transformations of the self along the very coordinates from which they emerge. Enacting a comparative and contagious postsecular sensibility, these gospels draw on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Giorgio Agamben, Catherine Malabou, François Laruelle, Peter Sloterdijk, and Gilles Deleuze yet rejuvenate scholarship in continental philosophy, critical race theory, the new materialisms, speculative realism, and nonphilosophy. They think beyond the sovereign force of the one to initiate a radical politics "after" God.

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Book Description:

An Insurrectionist Manifesto contains four insurrectionary gospels based on Martin Heidegger's philosophical model of the fourfold: earth and sky, gods and mortals. Challenging religious dogma and dominant philosophical theories, they offer a cooperative, world-affirming political theology that promotes new life through not resurrection but insurrection.

About the Author:

Ward Blanton is a reader in biblical cultures and European thought at the University of Kent.

Clayton Crockett is professor and director of religious studies at the University of Central Arkansas.

Jeffrey W. Robbins is professor and chair of religion and philosophy at Lebanon Valley College.

Noelle Vahanian is professor of philosophy at Lebanon Valley College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0231176236
• ISBN 13: 9780231176231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224