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A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life

A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life

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Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C

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ISBN10: 0231166907
ISBN13: 9780231166904
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Feb 25 2014
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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