Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Paul and the Philosophers: Return to a New Archive 1
4. PART I. Reconstructing the Ancient Paul ‘‘Between Athens and Jerusalem’’
5. The Address of Paul on the Areopagus 41
6. Paul as a Hellenistic Philosopher: The Evidence of Philippians 52
7. Paul among the Ancient Philosophers: The Case of Romans 7 69
8. PART II. Sovereignty and the Aporias of Universalism
9. Paul and Universalism 87
10. Politics Between Times: Theologico-Political Interpretations of the Restraining Force (katechon) in Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians 105
11. 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’’ 127
12. PART III. Paul, Materialism, and the Contingencies of Emancipation
13. The Philosophers’ Paul in the Frame of the Global: Some Reflections 143
14. Paul as a Hero of Subjectivity 159
15. The Necessity of a Dead Bird: Paul’s Communism 175
16. Paul and Materialist Grace: Slavoj Žiižek's Reformation 186
17. Radical Theology and the Event: Paul with Deleuze 210
18. You Are Not Your Own: On the Nature of Faith 224
19. Paul the Apostle: Proclamation and Argumentation 256
20. PART IV. Communal Spaces Between Times
21. Ablative Absolutes: From Paul to Shakespeare 281
22. The Saturday of Messianic Time: Agamben and Badiou on the Apostle Paul 297
23. Love and the Stick: The Worldly Aspects of the Call in the First Letter to the Corinthians 310
24. PART V. Paulinism and Cultural Critique
25. Freud’s Jesus (Paul’s War) 329
26. Scandal/Resentment: The Antiaesthetics of the Banlieue 343
27. Paul’s Greek 354
28. Nietzsche and Saint Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos 381
29. PART VI. Ethics and the Foundations of Law
30. The Killing Letter and the Discourse of Spirit: Reading Paul Writing 397
31. ‘‘Love your neighbor,’’ the Son, and the Sons’ Community: Reading Paul’s Epistles in View of Freud and Lacan 413
32. The ‘‘Jewish Question’’ in the Return to Paul: Empire Politics 437
33. Paul and the Political Theology of the Neighbor 449
34. Inverse Versus Dialectical Theology: The Two Faces of Negativity and the Miracle of Faith 466
35. Notes 513
36. Contributors 625