Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul's 'Real'

A Lacanian Approach
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52166-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4238 g

This project engages with scholarship on Paul by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and historians to reveal the assumptions and prejudices that determine the messiah in secularism and its association with the exception.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Principe, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Trauma of Secularism 2. Messianic Roads and Highways: From Paul's Weakness to Benjamin's Weak 3. Paul and the Law: Love, Circumcision and the Death of Sin 4. Interpellation Beyond Interpellation 5. Messianic Exceptions Conclusion Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Concetta V. Principe takes a Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to comparative explorations of twentieth-century texts. Her articles exploring trauma in cultural and political texts have appeared in Journal of Cultural Research and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. She currently teaches at York University, Canada.