Return Statements

Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University and Distinguished International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is author of many previous works on Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, including The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum, 2002), Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (Continuum, 2005), In Search for a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Expression (University of Minnesota, 2012); Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae (University of Minnesota, 2017) and ‘The People are Missing’: On Minor Literature Today (University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Return StatementsSapere aude?‘What’s Love Got to do with it?’noli mi tangere!… ’tacitly, the caress, in a word, the Christian body’Philosophical Fundamentalism TodayLiving and Dying under the Double-Horizon of the Death of GodThe Unprecedented Return of St. PaulThe Coming Community?Conclusion: The Return Address – ‘Life itself’Index

Neither dismissively condescending nor unthinkingly reverent, Lambert's Return Statements is a stunning exploration of the return of religion in theory, philosophy and contemporary culture. The critical range of this book is remarkable; from Derrida to Zizek, Lambert provides a stylish and intelligent exploration of the various deployments of spirit for our 'post-secular' present.