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Informationen zum Autor Ole Jakob Løland is a postdoctoral researcher in theology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek . Klappentext Jacob Taubes radically changed our conceptions of Paul the apostle. Loland shows how we can approach Paul's letters with the distinctive perspective of this Jewish rabbi steeped in continental philosophy. The book emphasizes Paul's Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of the apostle's revolutionary doctrine of the cross, which the author terms Pauline Ugliness. Zusammenfassung Jacob Taubes radically changed our conceptions of Paul the apostle. Loland shows how we can approach Paul’s letters with the distinctive perspective of this Jewish rabbi steeped in continental philosophy. The book emphasizes Paul’s Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of the apostle’s revolutionary doctrine of the cross, which the author terms Pauline Ugliness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction | 1 1 The Historical and the Philosophical: A Contemporary Scene | 13 2 Jacob Taubes's Path to Paul: From the Eschatologist to the Paulinist | 22 3 Paul and Philosophy: Taubes's Contradictory Paul | 52 4 Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis: Taubes's Introspective Paul | 100 5 Paul against Empire: Taubes's Political Paul | 140 Conclusion | 177 Acknowledgments | 185 Notes | 187 Bibliography | 219 Index of Biblical References | 229 General Index | 231
