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 iek, 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.
Price: $30.00
Pages: 224
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Publication Date:
12 April 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231176231
Format: Paperback
Each gospel-like contribution to The Insurrectionist Manifesto can be read separately, but when they are read in tandem, a particular disturbing power is occasioned. I found myself stimulated and conceptually shaken in equal fashion. The call of these gospels has the potential to disturb the ground of our being. Those who hear it will be positively afflicted by a series of challenges that are exciting and demanding in equal measure.
— Mike Grimshaw, University of Canterbury
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.
Foreword, by Peter Rollins
Preface, by Creston Davis
Introduction: What Is Insurrectionist Theology?, by Ward Blanton, Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Noëlle Vahanian
1. Earth: What Can a Planet Do?, by Clayton Crockett
2. Satellite Skies; or, The Gospel and Acts of the Vampirisms of Transcendence, by Ward Blanton
3. A Theory of Insurrection: Beyond the Way of the Mortals, by Jeffrey W. Robbins
4. The Gospel of the Word Made Flesh: Insurrection from Within the Heart of Divinity, by Noëlle Vahanian
Afterword, by Catherine Keller
Notes
Index
