Future Christ

<i>Future Christ</i> is one of the first English translations of the work of François Laruelle one of the most exciting voices in contemporary French philosophy and the creator of the practice of 'non-philosophy'. <br/><br/>In this work Laruelle draws on material from the traditions of Christianity Judaism and Gnosticism but he does so by suspending their authority. This adventure in non-philosophy does not claim to think for religion but from it as material and with disinterest towards its self-given status as ultimate authority. This provocative yet remarkably accessible book introduces philosophy to the lessons of heresy and makes use of them in a non-philosophical dualysis of messianism and apocalypticism. Laruelle investigates the heretic question analogous to but historically distinguished from the Jewish question to develop a non-Christian science that struggles against and for our World. <i>Future Christ</i> thus opens up novel ways of thinking within existing religious and philosophical thought and marks an incisive and wide-ranging non-philosophical engagement with key contemporary debates in philosophy and theology.