We inhabit a time of crisis—totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher Jean Vioulac is invested in and worried by all of this, but his main concern lies with how these phenomena all represent a crisis within—and a threat to—thinking itself. In his first book to be translated into English, Vioulac radicalizes Heidegger's understanding of truth as disclosure through the notion of truth as apocalypse. This "apocalypse of truth" works as an unveiling that reveals both the finitude and mystery of truth, allowing a full confrontation with truth-as-absence. Engaging with Heidegger, Marx, and St. Paul, as well as contemporary figures including Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek, Vioulac's book presents a subtle, masterful exposition of his analysis before culminating in a powerful vision of "the abyss of the deity." Here, Vioulac articulates a portrait of Christianity as a religion of mourning, waiting for a god who has already passed by, a form of ever-present eschatology whose end has always already taken place. With a preface by Jean-Luc Marion, Apocalypse of Truth presents a major contemporary French thinker to English-speaking audiences for the first time.

ジャン・ヴィウラックが提示するのは、現代の危機を「思索」そのものの死として捉える、極めて過激で深遠な知の旅です。ハイデガーの真理概念を「黙示録」へと昇華させ、真理を輝かしい顕現ではなく、むしろ「不在」や「深淵」として対峙させるその筆致は、読者の魂を激しく揺さぶります。 マルクスや聖パウロらとの対峙を経て、神なき時代のキリスト教を「哀悼の宗教」と定義する視座は圧巻です。すでに終わりが訪れているという戦慄的な終末論の中で、沈黙する神の深淵を見つめる彼の言葉は、混迷を極める現代を照らす残酷なまでに美しい閃光となるでしょう。