Secular Messiahs and the Return of Pauls 'Real' A Lacanian Approach [Hardcover]

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.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

Secular Messiahs and the Return of Pauls 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)?

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.

In addition to its superb treatment of contemporary philosophy and cultural theory, Principe engages with a rich array of early Jewish texts with a breadth and sophistication which distinguishes it from almost everyone else writing about these issues to date. Principe is clearly a thinker of crucial importance, and her work on Paul as a figure of trauma within secularism and universalism will be recognized as having far reaching implications.' - Ward Blanton, University of Kent, UK

'This is a very impressive book that links Lacan to the focus on contemporary messianism and shows how modern secularism repeats Paul's original experience. To read the messiah as an objet petit a is a brilliant move where the lÓ