Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy

The Outcast and the Spirit

AvGert-Jan Van Der Heiden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Offers a new systematic account of the philosophical potential of Saint Paul's letters.Shows the present-day philosophical importance of the letters of the founder of Christianity.Argues that important ontological problems concerning dualism, nihilism and the event appear in an unexpected light when read through a Pauline lensShows a new philosophical appraisal of the Pauline conception of faith in terms of an art of livingOffers a new systematic approach to the intriguing present-day philosophical turn to the Letters of Saint Paul in the works of Heidegger, Taubes, Badiou, Agamben and ZizekDiscusses how Saint Paul allows philosophers to rethink the notions of law and community giving rise to a new type of political philosophyThe re-examination of Saint Paul's letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today.In discussion with a range of authors contributing to this movement, including Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, and Taubes, Gert-Jan van der Heiden offers a new and systematic account of the philosophical potential of these letters. He does so by uncovering a dialectic of exception, which revolves around the Pauline notions of the outcast and the spirit.Against a general tendency to understand the significance of Paul in politico-theological terms alone, van der Heiden focuses on the ontological potential of Saint Paul's letters by elucidating what they imply for our thinking about (non-)beings, world, event, time, exception and spirit. Ultimately, he shows how this dialectic implies a new understanding of being and thinking and gives rise to a new art of living, both ethically and politically.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-31
Mått:138 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399521727

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Gert-Jan van der Heiden is Professor of Metaphysics at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony (SUNY, 2020), Ontology after Ontotheology: Plurality, Event and Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy (Duquesne University Press, 2014), The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricoeur and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement (Duquesne University Press, 2010). He is co-editor of The Gadamerian Mind (Routledge, 2022) and Saint Paul and Philosophy: The Consonance of Ancient and Modern Thought (De Gruyter, 2017). He is editor-in-chief of the Brill series Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology.

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Gert-Jan van der Heiden provides an excellent map to the confusing terrain of modern-day philosophical appropriations of St Paul, in Badiou, Taubes, Zizek, Agamben, and others. Through his interpretation, Paul comes forth as a radical thinker of new beginnings and forms of life, opening a door to thinking the world differently.

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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Another Legacy of Paul?Retrieving PaulPhilosophical Self-Portraits as PaulThree LeitmotifsOverview 2. The Dialectic Spirit of Paul Paul, a Dualist?Gnostic Temptation and Pauline SpiritDialectic between Monism and DualismWhich Dialectic?3. The Ghost of Nihilism Devaluations of LifeNietzsche’s Polemic Faith as Holding-to-be-TrueRetrieving Ancient Thought4. Meontology Nothing in the WorldSense of an EndingAs Not Cast Out from the World5. Time, Event, and Exception Death and ResurrectionDialectic of ExceptionParousia and Potentiality-of-Being-Otherwise Between Past and Future6. Law, Promise, and Grace State of ExceptionPaul’s Dialectic Political Theology Dualism of Law and Grace? Katargēsis and Charis7. Community, Exception, and Outcast All IsraelNeither Jew nor GreekA Part Without PartSet Apart8. Epilogue: A Pauline Dialectic of ExceptionPositioning Paul in Ancient ThoughtNavigating DialecticallyFirstfruits of the Spirit Bibliography