LEADER 03493nam 22004575 450 001 9910793814403321 005 20230823004824.0 010 $a0-8232-8657-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823286577 035 $a(CKB)4100000009938682 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5987159 035 $a(DE-B1597)555420 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823286577 035 $a(OCoLC)1129278526 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009938682 100 $a20200723h20202020 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPauline Ugliness $eJacob Taubes and the Turn to Paul /$fOle Jakob Løland 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (249 pages) 225 0 $aPerspectives in Continental Philosophy 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The historical and the philosophical: A contemporary scene --$t2. Jacob Taubes?s path to Paul: From the eschatologist to the paulinist --$t3. Paul and philosophy: Taubes?s contradictory Paul --$t4. Paul as predecessor to psychoanalysis: Taubes?s introspective Paul --$t5. Paul against empire: Taubes?s political Paul --$tConclusion --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex of biblical references --$tGeneral index 330 $aIn recent decades Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj ?i?ek have shown the centrality of Paul to western political and philosophical thought and made the Apostle a central figure in left-wing discourses far removed from traditional theological circles. Yet the recovery of Paul beyond Christian theology owes a great deal to the writings of the Jewish rabbi and philosopher Jacob Taubes (1923?1987). Pauline Ugliness shows how Paul became an effective tool for Taubes to position himself within European philosophical debates of the twentieth century. Drawing on Nietzsche?s polemical readings of the ancient apostle as well as Freud?s psychoanalysis, Tabues developed an imaginative and distinct account of political theology in confrontations with Carl Schmitt, Theodor Adorno, Hans Blumenberg, and others. In a powerful reconsideration of the apostle, Taubes contested the conventional understanding of Paul as the first Christian who broke definitively with Judaism and drained Christianity of its political potential. As a Jewish rabbi steeped in a philosophical tradition marked by European Christianity, Taubes was, on the contrary, able to emphasize Paul?s Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of his revolutionary doctrine of the cross. This book establishes Taubes?s account of Paul as a turning point in the development of political theology. Løland shows how Taubes identified the Pauline movement as the birth of a politics of ugliness, the invention of a revolutionary criticism of the ?beautiful? culture of the powerful that sides instead with the oppressed. 410 0$aPerspectives in continental philosophy. 606 $aPhilosophical theology 615 0$aPhilosophical theology. 676 $a227/.06 700 $aLøland$b Ole Jakob$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0909066 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793814403321 996 $aPauline Ugliness$93765687 997 $aUNINA