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Paul and the Philosophers (Hardcover, New)
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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 moment.
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