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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. Enacting a comparative and contagious postsecular sensibility, these gospels draw on the work of Slavoj Zizek, Giorgio Agamben, Catherine Malabou, Francois Laruelle, Peter Sloterdijk, and Gilles Deleuze yet rejuvenate scholarship in continental philosophy, critical race theory, the new materialisms, speculative realism, and non-philosophy. They think beyond the sovereign force of the one to initiate a radical politics "after" God.
List of contents
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
About the author
Ward Blanton, Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Noëlle Vahanian. Foreword by Peter Rollins, Preface by Creston Davis, and Afterword by Catherine Keller.
Summary
A call for new forms of solidarity and spiritual practice.
Report
"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, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Canterbury
