TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blanton,Ward
TI  - A materialism for the masses: Saint Paul and the philosophy of undying life 
T2  - Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
SN  - 9780231536455
AV  - BS2651 .B53 2014eb
U1  - 227227.0832227/.0832 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Paul,
KW  - Bible
KW  - Epistles of Paul
KW  - Theology
KW  - Épîtres de Paul
KW  - Théologie
KW  - fast
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Christianisme et politique
KW  - Livres numériques
KW  - e-books
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - New Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Paul's Letters
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
N1  - 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 -- On being called dead: splitting the imperative of being -- Insurrectionist risk (Paul among the Parrhesiasts) -- Singularity, or, Spiritual exercise (Paul and the philosophical immanence of Foucault and Deleuze) -- Seizures of chance: Paulinist agencies in neocapitalist contexts -- Conclusion: New beginnings
N2  - 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)
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