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Pauline Ugliness : Jacob Taubes and the Turn to Paul.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy SeriesPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823286577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pauline UglinessOnline resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Pauline Ugliness -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Historical and the Philosophical: A Contemporary Scene -- 2 Jacob Taubes's Path to Paul: From the Eschatologist to the Paulinist -- 3 Paul and Philosophy: Taubes's Contradictory Paul -- 4 Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis: Taubes's Introspective Paul -- 5 Paul against Empire: Taubes's Political Paul -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical References -- General Index.
Summary: Jacob Taubes radically changed our conceptions of Paul the apostle. Loland shows how we can approach Paul's letters with the distinctive perspective of this Jewish rabbi steeped in continental philosophy. The book emphasizes Paul's Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of the apostle's revolutionary doctrine of the cross, which the author terms Pauline Ugliness.
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Cover -- Pauline Ugliness -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Historical and the Philosophical: A Contemporary Scene -- 2 Jacob Taubes's Path to Paul: From the Eschatologist to the Paulinist -- 3 Paul and Philosophy: Taubes's Contradictory Paul -- 4 Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis: Taubes's Introspective Paul -- 5 Paul against Empire: Taubes's Political Paul -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical References -- General Index.

Jacob Taubes radically changed our conceptions of Paul the apostle. Loland shows how we can approach Paul's letters with the distinctive perspective of this Jewish rabbi steeped in continental philosophy. The book emphasizes Paul's Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of the apostle's revolutionary doctrine of the cross, which the author terms Pauline Ugliness.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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