Christo-Fiction, the Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem

by François Laruelle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231167245
• ISBN13: 9780231167246
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher