Paul and the Philosophers / / ed. by Ward Blanton, Hent de Vries.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Anidjar, Gil,; Balfour, Ian,; Benyamini, Itzhak,; Blanton, Ward,; Boer, Roland,; Castelli, Elizabeth A.,; Conzelmann, Hans,; Critchley, Simon,; Crockett, Clayton,; Deleuze, Gilles,; Engberg-Pedersen, Troels,; Gourgouris, Stathis,; Holloway, Paul A.,; Kaufman, Eleanor,; Reinhard Lupton, Julia,; Reinhard, Kenneth,; Ricoeur, Paul,; Schott, Nils F.,; Stowers, Stanley,; Szabari, Antónia,; Trigano, Shmuel,; Vries, Hent de,; Wasserman, Emma,; Welborn, L. L.,; Wilde, Marc de,; Žiižek, Slavoj,
• HerausgeberIn: Blanton, Ward,; de Vries, Hent,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)

The apostle Paul has reemerged as a force on the contemporary philosophical scene. Some of the most powerful recent affirmations of nonrepresentational, materialist, and event-oriented philosophies repeat topics and tropes of the ancient apostle. Paul is appropriated both for and against Kantian cosmopolitanism, psychoanalytic models of subjectivity and power, Schmittian political theologies, Derridean messianism, political universalism, and an ongoing refashioning of identity politics within postsecular contexts. This book provides the most comprehensive constellation to date of current thinking about Paul and his cultural or philosophical “afterlives” in ancient, modern, and contemporary contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Paul and the Philosophers: Return to a New Archive -- PART I. Reconstructing the Ancient Paul ‘‘Between Athens and Jerusalem’’ -- The Address of Paul on the Areopagus -- Paul as a Hellenistic Philosopher: The Evidence of Philippians -- Paul among the Ancient Philosophers: The Case of Romans 7 -- PART II. Sovereignty and the Aporias of Universalism -- Paul and Universalism -- Politics Between Times: Theologico-Political Interpretations of the Restraining Force (katechon) in Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians -- The Culture of Crucifixion and the Resurrection of the Dispossessed: The Interpellation of the Subject in the Roman Empire and Paul’s Gospel as ‘‘Truth Event’’ -- PART III. Paul, Materialism, and the Contingencies of Emancipation -- The Philosophers’ Paul in the Frame of the Global: Some Reflections -- Paul as a Hero of Subjectivity -- The Necessity of a Dead Bird: Paul’s Communism -- Paul and Materialist Grace: Slavoj Žiižek's Reformation -- Radical Theology and the Event: Paul with Deleuze -- You Are Not Your Own: On the Nature of Faith -- Paul the Apostle: Proclamation and Argumentation -- PART IV. Communal Spaces Between Times -- Ablative Absolutes: From Paul to Shakespeare -- The Saturday of Messianic Time: Agamben and Badiou on the Apostle Paul -- Love and the Stick: The Worldly Aspects of the Call in the First Letter to the Corinthians -- PART V. Paulinism and Cultural Critique -- Freud’s Jesus (Paul’s War) -- Scandal/Resentment: The Antiaesthetics of the Banlieue -- Paul’s Greek -- Nietzsche and Saint Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos -- PART VI. Ethics and the Foundations of Law -- The Killing Letter and the Discourse of Spirit: Reading Paul Writing -- ‘‘Love your neighbor,’’ the Son, and the Sons’ Community: Reading Paul’s Epistles in View of Freud and Lacan -- The ‘‘Jewish Question’’ in the Return to Paul: Empire Politics -- Paul and the Political Theology of the Neighbor -- Inverse Versus Dialectical Theology: The Two Faces of Negativity and the Miracle of Faith -- Notes -- Contributors