Secular Messiahs and the Return of Pauls 'Real'

This project engages with scholarship on Paul by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and historians to reveal the assumptions and prejudices that determine the messiah in secularism and its association with the exception.

Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul's 'Real': A Lacanian Approach is, to conclude, a worthwhile read and deserves a place in the expanding field of Pauline studies. Principe has done us a favor by pulling together many strands of the scholarship and presenting them in a unified manner based upon a Lacanian reading. (Thomas C. Edmondson, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, July, 2017)

Autorentext

Concetta V. Principe takes a Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to comparative explorations of twentieth-century texts. Her articles exploring trauma in cultural and political texts have appeared in Journal of Cultural Research and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. She currently teaches at York University, Canada.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Trauma of Secularism 2. Messianic Roads and Highways: From Paul's Weakness to Benjamin's Weak 3. Paul and the Law: Love, Circumcision and the Death of Sin 4. Interpellation Beyond Interpellation 5. Messianic Exceptions Conclusion Bibliography