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Alain Badiou and the Book of Revelation

The Emergence of a Truth

Alain Badiou and the Book of Revelation

The Emergence of a Truth

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£77.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781978702288
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 24/07/2024
Width: 16 cm
Height: 23.8 cm
Using many key philosophical concepts based on the work of Alain Badiou, this book outlines the relationship between an event and the emergence of a “truth,” which serves as a helpful organizing principle from which to study the origins of Christianity. Alain Badiou and the Book of Revelation argues that despite what postmodern philosophy says, truths still appear, and their immanent character can be known in the world through a militant subject, one who is willing to declare the consequences of an event that has happened. The second half of the book applies Badiou’s theory of the event to the book of Revelation, a book that draws out radical, even terrifying, consequences from an event “the victory of the Lamb,” particularly in the logic of a new world, and a political body that is to come. Based on several new insights following the completion of Badiou’s “The Immanence of Truths,” the book is a full-length treatment of Badiou’s philosophy to the study of Christian origins and the book of Revelation.

Introduction: Christian Origins—Diminishing the Character of the Event
Chapter One: Modern Philosophy and the Event, or Not
Chapter Two: Alain Badiou: Event, Subjectivity, and Early Christianity
Chapter Three: Revelation: The Logics of a New World
Chapter Four: Christianity Appears First as Itself

Bruce Worthington

Bruce Worthington is assistant professor in New Testament and critical theory at the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.