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Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy

Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy The Outcast and the Spirit - Crosscurrents

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Publisher's Synopsis

The 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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Book information

ISBN: 9781399521734
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 227.06
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 232
Weight: 372g
Height: 155mm
Width: 234mm
Spine width: 16mm