St. Paul and Continental Philosophy

3 credits · Graduate School

A number of prominent philosophers in Europe have surprisingly 'rediscovered' Jewish and Christian monotheism and eschatology, and especially the writings of Paul, as a resource for thinking in radical new ways about politics, ethics, and social agency. This course brings students into engagement with texts by these thinkers, but also with earlier texts similarly on the boundary between theology and philosophy that helped contribute to this recent development. Authors include Karl Barth, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Jacob Taubes, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Zizek, and Michel de Certeau. [3] Mr. DeHart