Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Problem Stated; 1.2 On Method: Reception Theory; 1.3 The Competitive Play of the Historical and the Philosophical; 1.4 Outline; Chapter 2: Slavoj Žižek's Way to Paul: The Hegelian Paulinist; 2.1 To Live Under the Law; 2.2 Democracy Beyond the Law; 2.3 Cynicism as Hegemonic; 2.4 The Dogmatic Approach; 2.5 Modern Apostles; 2.6 The Žižekian World History; 2.7 Badiou's Truth-Event: Paul Enters the Scene; 2.8 Slavoj Žižek Within the Competitive Play Between the Disciplines

2.9 The Roots of Žižek's Suspicion of "Traditional Historiography"2.10 The Cover-Up of Language Itself: Against Hermeneutics; 2.11 Formalization: Not Interpretation; Chapter 3: Paul and Philosophy: Žižek's Consistent Paul; 3.1 Consistency in Form: Paul-The Consistent Fighter for a Universal Truth; 3.1.1 The Model of Paul as Institutionalizer; 3.1.2 Static and Consistent Paul; 3.1.3 Consistency in Form: Paul Against Wisdom; 3.1.4 The Pauline Break with Wisdom in the Present; 3.2 The Pauline Break with Wisdom in the Past: Historical Parallels

3.3 Rewriting the Apostle Against Wisdom in 1 Corinthians: A Less Consistent Paul3.3.1 Paul's Enemies in Corinth; 3.3.2 No Pauline Carnival: Paul the Egalitarian; 3.3.3 No Pauline Carnival?; 3.3.4 No Gendered Outcasts in Corinth; 3.3.5 Unprecedented Pauline Critique of Human Wisdom?; 3.3.6 A Way to Avoid Paul's Ambiguities; 3.4 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis: Žižek's Introspective Paul; 4.1 Lacanian Deconstruction of the Spirit-Letter-Opposition?; 4.1.1 The Afterlife of 2 Cor 3:6 in Žižek; 4.2 The Task Summarized: Detect Žižek's Introspective Paul

4.2.1 First Presupposition: Paul's Perspective4.2.2 Second Presupposition: Romans 7 as Argument Against Legalism; 4.2.3 Third Presupposition: The Presence of Adam in Romans 7; 4.2.4 Fourth Presupposition: No Rescue of the Law; 4.3 Rewriting the Ambiguity of Romans 7 with Žižek's Introspective Paul; 4.3.1 The Repressive Law of Žižek's Paulinism; 4.4 Conclusion; Chapter 5: Paul against Empire: Žižek's Political Paul; 5.1 Žižek's Paul and Empire; 5.1.1 Disruptive Forces; 5.1.2 Paul as a Thinker of Rupture; 5.1.3 The Problem: Contemporary Particularisms; 5.1.4 Paul as Political Theorist?

5.1.5 Paul the Totalitarian?5.1.6 Universalism in Negative Terms: Thinker of Discontinuity; 5.1.7 The Threat Against a Pauline Class Struggle: From Within; 5.2 Rewriting the Universalism of Gal 3:28 with Žižek's Paul; 5.2.1 Nonconforming Rejection of Circumcision; 5.3 Žižek's Paul Situated Within Contemporary Political Philosophy; 5.4 Conclusion: Justice Rather than Universalism; Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Usefulness of Pauline Texts for the Philosopher-And for the Theologian; Bibliography; Index