Paul and the philosophers
By: edited by Ward Blanton and Hent de Vries
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780823249640; 9780823249657; 9780823250417
Subjects: Philosophy and religion; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophie; Godsdienstfilosofie
Description: 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. Other thinkers find in Paul and his numerous cultural "afterlives" the ideal figure to contest both identity politics and the postmodern political fetish of endless openness and the deferral of presence. 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. It is a groundbreaking international and multidisciplinary exploration of the vexed political history of Paulinisms in philosophy and of philosophies in Paulinism. From his very first utterances, Paul's pronouncements as the self-proclaimed apostle of Jesus were curiously intertwined with philosophical discourse, with Paul presenting himself as both philosopher and anti-philosopher. Early Christian receptions of Paul then carefully managed his legacy in relation to the philosophical schools, presenting him alternately as an exemplary Platonist, a purveyor of Stoic spiritual exercises, and someone whose authority outstrips philosophy altogether. In the modern period, various types of Paulinism were imagined serially as possible escapes of philosophical thought from the domination of inherited metaphysics or ontotheology. The contributors to this volume bring unprecedented multidisciplinary expertise to both the historical reception and the contemporary relevance of a thinker who may come to be seen as the defining figure of our political and intellectual mome.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-623).
Table of contents: title: Paul and the philosophers : return to a new archive  -- Ward Blanton -- Part I. Reconstructing the ancient Paul "between Athens and Jerusalem".; title: The address of Paul on the Areopagus  -- Hans Conzelmann; title: Paul as a Hellenistic philosopher : the evidence of Philippians  -- Paul A. Holloway; title: Paul among the ancient philosophers : the case of Romans 7  -- Emma Wasserman -- Part II. Sovereignty and the aporias of universalism.; title: Paul and universalism  -- Troels Engberg-Pedersen; title: Politics between times : theologico-political interpretations of the restraining force (katechon) in Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians  -- Marc de Wilde; title: The culture of crucifixion and the resurrection of the dispossed : the interpellation of the subject in the Roman Empire and Paul's gospel as "truth event"  -- L.L. Welborn -- Part III. Paul, materialism, and the contingencies of emancipationn.; title: The philosophers' Paul in the frame of the global : some reflections  -- Elizabeth A. Castelli; title: Paul as a hero of subjectivity  -- Stanley Stowers; title: The necessity of a dead bird : Paul's communism  -- Slavoj Žižek; title: Paul and materialist grace : Slavoj Žižek's reformation  -- Roland Boer; title: Radical theology and the event : Paul with Deleuze  -- Clayton Crockett; title: You are not your own : on the nature of faith  -- Simon Critchley; title: Paul the apostle : proclamation and argumentation -- Paul Ricoeur.; title: Part IV. Communal spaces between times.; title: Ablative absolutes : from Paul to Shakespeare  -- Julia Reinhard Lupton; title: The Saturday of messianic time : Agamben and Badiou on the Apostle Paul  -- Eleanor Kaufman; title: Love and the stick : the worldly aspects of the call in the First Letter to the Corinthians  -- Nils F. Schott -- Part V. Paulinism and cultural critique.; title: Freud's Jesus (Paul's war)  -- Gil Anidjar; title: Scandal/resentment : the antiaesthetics of the Banlieue  -- Antónia Szabari; title: Paul's Greek  -- Stathis Gourgouris; title: Nietzsche and Saint Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos  -- Gilles Deleuze -- Part VI. Ethics and the foundations of law.; title: The killng letter and the discourse of spirit: reading Paul writing  -- Ian Balfour; title: "Love your neighbor," the Son, and the sons' community : reading Paul's Epistles in view of Freud and Lacan ; title: Itzhak Benyamini --; title: The "Jewish question" in the return to Paul : empire politics  -- Shmuel Trigano; title: Paul and the political theology of the neighbor  -- Kenneth Reinhard; title: Inverse versus dialectial theology : the two faces of negativity and the miracle of faith -- Hent de Vries.