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A Materialism for the Masses

Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life

  • Hardback
  • 264 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • 15.9 x 23.6 x 1.7 cm

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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.
A Materialism for the Masses and Displacing Christian Origins
Displacing Christian OriginsA Materialism for the Masses
  • Author

    Ward Blanton

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Columbia University Press

  • Published

    March 2014

  • Weight

    464g

  • Page Count

    264

  • Dimensions

    15.9 x 23.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780231166904

  • ISBN-10

    0231166907

  • Eden Code

    4241008

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