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Christ Without Adam - Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers' Paul (Paperback)
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Christ Without Adam - Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers' Paul (Paperback)
Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion
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The apostle Paul deals extensively with gender, embodiment, and
desire in his authentic letters, yet many of the contemporary
philosophers interested in his work downplay these aspects of his
thought. Christ Without Adam is the first book to examine the role
of gender and sexuality in the turn to the apostle Paul in recent
Continental philosophy. It builds a constructive proposal for
embodied Christian theological anthropology in conversation with --
and in contrast to -- the Paulinisms of Stanislas Breton, Alain
Badiou, and Slavoj i ek. Paul's letters bequeathed a crucial
anthropological aporia to the history of Christian thought, insofar
as the apostle sought to situate embodied human beings
typologically with reference to Adam and Christ, but failed to work
out the place of sexual difference within this classification. As a
result, the space between Adam and Christ has functioned
historically as a conceptual and temporal interval in which
Christian anthropology poses and re-poses theological dilemmas of
embodied difference.This study follows the ways in which the
appropriations of Paul by Breton, Badiou, and i ek have either
sidestepped or collapsed this interval, a crucial component in
their articulations of a universal Pauline subject. As a result,
sexual difference fails to materialize in their readings as a
problem with any explicit force. Against these readings, Dunning
asserts the importance of the Pauline Adam--Christ typology, not as
a straightforward resource but as a witness to a certain necessary
failure -- the failure of the Christian tradition to resolve
embodied difference without remainder. This failure, he argues, is
constructive in that it reveals the instability of sexual
difference, both masculine and feminine, within an anthropological
paradigm that claims to be universal yet is still predicated on
male bodies.
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