From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the
temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of
existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer
authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler, a transcendental
deity, or an Event, which they embrace with unquestioned devotion.
Such obsessions precipitate contempt for the worldliness of real
bodies in real time and refusal of responsibility and agency. In
The Perils of the One, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical
anthropology that confronts the legacy of "monarchical thinking":
the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and
structures, whether political, moral, theological, or secular. In
wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical,
intellectual and passionate, Gourgouris reads across politics and
theology, literary and art criticism, psychoanalysis and feminism
in a critique of both political theology and the metaphysics of
secularism. He engages with a range of figures from the Apostle
Paul and Trinitarian theologians, to La Boetie, Schmitt, and Freud,
to contemporary thinkers such as Clastres, Said, Castoriadis,
Zizek, Butler, and Irigaray. At once a broad perspective on human
history and a detailed examination of our present moment, The
Perils of the One offers glimpses of what a counterpolitics of
autonomy would look like from anarchic subjectivities that refuse
external ideals, resist the allure of command and obedience, and
embrace otherness.
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