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Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy The Outcast and the Spirit

Author
van der Heiden, Gert-Jan
Published
Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh University Press [Imprint] 2023
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1 online resource
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van der Heiden, Gert-Jan
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eng
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Summary
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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ISBN
9781399521741
Collection
OAPEN Library.
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Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched
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