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Nietzsche Versus Paul / Abed Azzam.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and CulturePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231169301
  • 9780231538978
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 193 23
LOC classification:
  • B3318 .C35 A99 2015
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. From Dionysian Tragedy to Christianity -- 2. From Judaism to Christianity -- 3. Jesus-Christ and the Two Worlds of Early Christianity -- 4. Paul: The First Christian -- 5. Science and Art After the Death of God -- 6. Beyond Modern Temporality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Abed Azzam offers a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's engagement with the work of Paul the Apostle, reorienting the relationship between the two thinkers while embedding modern philosophy within early Christian theology. Paying careful attention to Nietzsche's dialectics, Azzam situates the philosopher's thought within the history of Christianity, specifically the Pauline dialectics of law and faith, and reveals how atheism is constructed in relation to Christianity.Countering Heidegger's characterization of Nietzsche as an anti-Platonist, Azzam brings the philosopher closer to Paul through a radical rereading of his entire corpus against Christianity. This approach builds a compelling new history of the West resting on a logic of sublimation, from ancient Greece and early Judaism to the death of God. Azzam discovers in Nietzsche's philosophy a solid, tangible Pauline structure and virtual, fragile Greek content, positioning the thinker as a forerunner of the recent "return to Paul" led by Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, and Breton. By changing the focus of modern philosophical inquiry from "Nietzsche and philosophy" to "Nietzsche and Christianity," Azzam initiates a major challenge to the primacy of Plato in the history of Western philosophy and narrow certainties regarding Nietzsche's relationship to Christian thought.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. From Dionysian Tragedy to Christianity -- 2. From Judaism to Christianity -- 3. Jesus-Christ and the Two Worlds of Early Christianity -- 4. Paul: The First Christian -- 5. Science and Art After the Death of God -- 6. Beyond Modern Temporality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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Abed Azzam offers a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's engagement with the work of Paul the Apostle, reorienting the relationship between the two thinkers while embedding modern philosophy within early Christian theology. Paying careful attention to Nietzsche's dialectics, Azzam situates the philosopher's thought within the history of Christianity, specifically the Pauline dialectics of law and faith, and reveals how atheism is constructed in relation to Christianity.Countering Heidegger's characterization of Nietzsche as an anti-Platonist, Azzam brings the philosopher closer to Paul through a radical rereading of his entire corpus against Christianity. This approach builds a compelling new history of the West resting on a logic of sublimation, from ancient Greece and early Judaism to the death of God. Azzam discovers in Nietzsche's philosophy a solid, tangible Pauline structure and virtual, fragile Greek content, positioning the thinker as a forerunner of the recent "return to Paul" led by Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, and Breton. By changing the focus of modern philosophical inquiry from "Nietzsche and philosophy" to "Nietzsche and Christianity," Azzam initiates a major challenge to the primacy of Plato in the history of Western philosophy and narrow certainties regarding Nietzsche's relationship to Christian thought.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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