Frontmatter
Contents
Paul and the Philosophers: Return to a New Archive
PART I. Reconstructing the Ancient Paul ''Between Athens and Jerusalem''
The Address of Paul on the Areopagus
Paul as a Hellenistic Philosopher: The Evidence of Philippians
Paul among the Ancient Philosophers: The Case of Romans 7
PART II. Sovereignty and the Aporias of Universalism
Paul and Universalism
Politics Between Times: Theologico-Political Interpretations of the Restraining Force (katechon) in Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians
The Culture of Crucifixion and the Resurrection of the Dispossessed: The Interpellation of the Subject in the Roman Empire and Paul's Gospel as ''Truth Event''
PART III. Paul, Materialism, and the Contingencies of Emancipation
The Philosophers' Paul in the Frame of the Global: Some Reflections
Paul as a Hero of Subjectivity
The Necessity of a Dead Bird: Paul's Communism
Paul and Materialist Grace: Slavoj Žiižek's Reformation
Radical Theology and the Event: Paul with Deleuze
You Are Not Your Own: On the Nature of Faith
Paul the Apostle: Proclamation and Argumentation
PART IV. Communal Spaces Between Times
Ablative Absolutes: From Paul to Shakespeare
The Saturday of Messianic Time: Agamben and Badiou on the Apostle Paul
Love and the Stick: The Worldly Aspects of the Call in the First Letter to the Corinthians
PART V. Paulinism and Cultural Critique
Freud's Jesus (Paul's War)
Scandal/Resentment: The Antiaesthetics of the Banlieue
Paul's Greek
Nietzsche and Saint Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos
PART VI. Ethics and the Foundations of Law
The Killing Letter and the Discourse of Spirit: Reading Paul Writing
''Love your neighbor,'' the Son, and the Sons' Community: Reading Paul's Epistles in View of Freud and Lacan
The ''Jewish Question'' in the Return to Paul: Empire Politics
Paul and the Political Theology of the Neighbor
Inverse Versus Dialectical Theology: The Two Faces of Negativity and the Miracle of Faith
Notes
Contributors