The dialectics of Paul: on exception, grace, and use in Badiou and Agamben
The remarkable philosophical present-day turn to Paul pays a lot of attention to the particular role played by the famous distinctions that structure Paul’s rhetoric such as the distinction between faith and law, life and death, and spirit and flesh. These distinctions lead to the question of whethe...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2016]
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International journal of philosophy and theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 77, Issue: 3, Pages: 171-190 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Agamben, Giorgio 1942-
/ Badiou, Alain 1937-
/ Paul Apostle
/ Dualism
/ Dialectics
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| RelBib Classification: | HC New Testament VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | The remarkable philosophical present-day turn to Paul pays a lot of attention to the particular role played by the famous distinctions that structure Paul’s rhetoric such as the distinction between faith and law, life and death, and spirit and flesh. These distinctions lead to the question of whether Paul (or the philosophers’ Paul) endorses a dualism or not. In this essay, the author investigates Badiou’s and Agamben’s readings of Paul and asks whether one cannot find a form of dialectics rather than dualism in these readings. The concept of the exception seems to corroborate this suggestion. To examine whether this suggestion makes sense, the author first discusses Badiou’s focus on the antidialectics of death and resurrection as well as the dialectical remnants in Badiou’s reading of Paul. Subsequently, the author analyses Agamben’s dialectical account of the Pauline terms katargein (to deactivate), chrēsis (use) and charis (grace). |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2327 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2016.1231620 |