Antiphilosophy of Christianity

This text presents and addresses the philosophical movement of antiphilosophy working thru the texts of Christian thinkers such as Pascal and Kierkegaard.  The author as influenced by Alain Badiou, portrays these Christian thinkers as of a subjective dimension negating the possibility of an objective quest for truth.  

The claim here is that antiphilosophy is abundant in the eyes of these two thinkers who frame the thought event as represented by Christianity, ultimately resigning itself to more or less the opposite of philosophy itself. Readers will discover why philosophical reason should never be convinced by that which denies its very authority.

Subjecting faith to the perils of philosophical analysis, confronting the philosophical tradition with the truth of the Christian faith, and occupying the space between the two: such are the challenges facing an antiphilosophy of Christianity.

This text will appeal to researchers and students working in continental philosophy, philosophy of religion and those in religious studies who want to investigate the links between Christianity and antiphilosophy.  

Ghislain Deslandes, HDR in Business Administration, Ph. D. in philosophy, is Professor at ESCP Europe (Paris Campus) and Academic Director of the Specialized Master programme in Media Management. He is also Program Director at the International College of Philosophy (Ciph).
A graduate of ESCP Europe's Media  - MS (class of 1994), he started his career in the press, with Les Echos - a daily -, before his nomination as chief editor of Diginews, a publisher of CD-Roms and digital news media. He then was Associate Director of Coplanet (a Web Agency within the Fi System  - Group) for more than four years. Lastly, he became Chief Internet Editor for EMAP (now Mondadori France) and CEO of Worldex Media, a publisher in the professional press, from 2003 to late 2007.

In philosophy, he earned a Master's degree under the supervision of Hélène Védrine and presented his dissertation, 'Ante-prolegomena to any post-humanism', to a jury chaired by Jean-Toussaint Desanti. He then defended his PhD thesis in 2000 at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University under the supervision of Bernard Bourgeois, essentially dedicated to a comparative study of the philosophies of Blaise Pascal and Sören Kierkegaard. The Jury was chaired by Pierre Magnard.