Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers' Paul.
New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
1 online resource (171 pages)
Gender, Theory, and Religion
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Reading Anthropology in Breton's Saint Paul; 2. Mysticism, Femininity, and Difference in Badiou's Theory of Pauline Discourses; 3. "Adam Is Christ": Žižek, Paul, and the Collapse of the Anthropological Interval; 4. Pauline Typology, Theological Anthropology, and the Possibilities of Impossible Difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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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 Žižek. Paul's letters bequeathed a crucial anthropological a.
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Christ Without Adam : Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers' Paul.
9780231167659
Badiou, Alain.
Breton, Stanislas.
Žižek, Slavoj.
Badiou, Alain.
Breton, Stanislas.
Žižek, Slavoj.
Bible., Epistles of Paul-- Theology.
Bible., Epistles of Paul.
Sex differences-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.