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A materialism for the masses : Saint Paul and the philosophy of undying life

By Ward , the Apostle Saint. Paul; the Apostle Saint. Paul , Apostel Heiliger. Paulus; Blanton

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0231166907, 978-0-231-16690-4, 978-0-231-16691-1, 0231166915, 978-0-231-53645-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2092544 bytes)
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Pages
239\265
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

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.

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