The Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek

• Main Author: Løland, Ole Jakob (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
• Subjects: Continental Philosophy.; Religion and politics.; Theology.; Politics and Religion.; Christian Theology.
• Physical Description: XIII, 224 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319917283
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91728-3

This is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Žižek's peculiar kind of Paulinism. It seeks to provide a full map of the Marxist philosopher's interpretations of Paul and critically engage with it. As one of several radical leftists of European critical thought, Žižek embraces the legacy of an ancient apostle in fascinating ways. This work considers Žižek's philosophical and political readings of Paul through the lens of reception history, and argues that through this recent philosophical turn to Paul, notions of the historical and philosophical are reproduced and negotiated anew.