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1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) Nietzsche and Freud saw Christianity as metaphysical escapism, with Nietzsche calling the religion a "Platonism for the masses" and faulting Paul the apostle for negating more immanent, material modes of thought and political solidarity. Integrating this debate with the philosophies of difference espoused by Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ward Blanton argues that genealogical interventions into the political economies of Western cultural memory do not go far enough in relation to the imagined founder of Christianity. Blanton challenges the idea of Paulinism as a pop Platonic worldview or form of social control. He unearths in Pauline legacies otherwise repressed resources for new materialist spiritualities and new forms of radical political solidarity, liberating "religion" from inherited interpretive assumptions so philosophical thought can manifest in risky, radical freedom. (Publisher) Includes bibliographical references and index Platonism for the masses: on the sacred cement shoes of Paul the Apostle -- Contingency, or, Covenantal comedy: in praise of strange Paulinist federations --
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- Author
- Ward Blanton
- Publisher
- New York: Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231166904
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Religion, Christian
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