Return Statements ─ The Return of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy

Gregg Lambert examines two facets of the return to religion in the 21st century: the resurgence of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy and the global 'post-secular' turn that has been taking place since 9/11. He asks how these two 'returns to religion' can be taking place simultaneously, and explores the relationship between them.

Lambert reflects on statements of these returns from contemporary philosophers including Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. He discovers a unique - and forboding - sense of the term 'religion' that belongs exclusively to our contemporary perspective.

Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University and is the Founding Director of The Syracuse University Humanities Centre.

He is the author of In Search of a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), On the (New) Baroque (The Davies Group, 2009),The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Bloomsbury, 2002), The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture (Bloomsbury, 2004) andWho's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari (Bloomsbury, 2006). He is co-editor ofDeleuze and Space (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and Jean Francois Lyotard: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory vols 1, 2 and 3 (Routeldge, 2004 and 2006).