TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gourgouris,Stathis
TI  - The Perils of the One
SN  - 9780231192880
AV  - BD362 .G68 2019
U1  - 199/.495 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political science-Philosophy
KW  - Said, Edward W
KW  - Transcendence (Philosophy)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; 1. Transformation, Not Transcendence --; 2. The Lesson of Pierre Clastres --; 3. On Self- Alteration --; 4. Žižek's Realism --; 5. Paul's Greek --; 6. Every Religion Is Idolatry --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler or a transcendental deity, which they embrace with unquestioned devotion. Such obsessions precipitate contempt for the worldliness of real bodies in real time and refusal of responsibility and agency.In The Perils of the One, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of "monarchical thinking": the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political or moral, theological or secular. In wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical, intellectual and passionate, Gourgouris reads across politics and theology, literary and art criticism, psychoanalysis and feminism in a critique of both political theology and the metaphysics of secularism. He engages with a range of figures from the Apostle Paul and Trinitarian theologians, to Schmitt and Freud, to contemporary thinkers such as Pierre Clastres, Edward Said, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, and Luce Irigaray. At once a broad perspective on human history and a detailed examination of our present moment, The Perils of the One offers glimpses of what a counterpolitics of autonomy would look like from anarchic subjectivities that refuse external ideals, resist the allure of obedience, and embrace otherness
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/gour19288
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231550024
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231550024/original
ER  -