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A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life
By (author) Ward Blanton
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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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Publisher | Columbia University Press
Published date | 25 Feb 2014
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 264
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-2311-6690-4
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BISAC | philosophy / political
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