A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy by Ward Blanton

By Ward Blanton

Nietzsche and Freud observed Christianity as metaphysical escapism, with Nietzsche calling the faith a "Platonism for the hundreds" and faulting Paul the apostle for negating extra immanent, fabric modes of idea and political harmony. Integrating this debate with the philosophies of distinction espoused by means of 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 reminiscence don't move a long way adequate in terms of the imagined founding father of Christianity.

Blanton demanding situations the assumption of Paulinism as a pop Platonic worldview or type of social regulate. He finds in Pauline legacies differently repressed assets for brand spanking new materialist spiritualities and new kinds of radical political cohesion, releasing "religion" from inherited interpretive assumptions so philosophical proposal can occur in dicy, radical freedom.

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