Christo-Fiction

The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem

François Laruelle, Robin Mackay

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Columbia University Press
05 May 2015

Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Religion & science; Christian theology; Philosophy of science; History of science

Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

"François Laruelle's lifelong project of ""nonphilosophy,"" or ""nonstandard philosophy,"" thinks past the theoretical limits of Western philosophy to realize new relations between religion, science, politics, and art. In Christo-Fiction Laruelle targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and the radical potential of Christ, whose ""crossing"" disrupts their circular discourse.

Laruelle's Christ is not the authoritative figure conjured by academic theology, the Apostles, or the Catholic Church. 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. Explicitly inserting quantum science into religion, Laruelle recasts the temporality of the cross, the entombment, and the resurrection, arguing that it is God who is sacrificed on the cross so equals in faith may be born. Positioning itself against orthodox religion and naive atheism alike, Christo-Fiction is a daring, heretical experiment that ties religion to the human experience and the lived world."

By: François Laruelle
Translated by: Robin Mackay
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 539g
ISBN: 9780231167246
ISBN 10: 0231167245
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 05 May 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Francois Laruelle is emeritus professor at the University of Paris Ouest, Nanterre la Defense (Paris X), and a lecturer at the College International de Philosophie. He is the author of more than twenty works of philosophy, including Principles of Non-Philosophy, Philosophies of Difference, Future Christ, and The Concept of Non-Photography. Robin Mackay is a philosopher and editor and publisher of Collapse Journal of Philosophical Research and Development.

Reviews for Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem

It is no exaggeration to say that the contribution of Laruelle's entire opus and of Christo-fiction in particular will be historic. The importance of this latest work stems not only from the momentum of the emergence of a Laruellian epoch in philosophy but also from the fact that this is the first work where he reconciles the two great phases in his thought - the scientific one and the one of non-standard theology. -- Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje Without accepting the positivism of mainstream philosophy and the everyday ideology of scientisim that many in the West operate with, Laruelle valorizes and rethinks the place of science for human liberation and how it may operate within philosophical practice itself. However, he thinks that science needs to tell stories, to create fictions, like the fiction of Christ, in order to stand on the side of the victims of history rather than the victors. -- Anthony Paul Smith, La Salle University