Paul of the gaps: Agamben, Benjamin and the puppet player

Title: Paul of the gaps: Agamben, Benjamin and the puppet player
Creator: Boer, Roland
Relation: Paul in the grip of the philosophers: the apostle and contemporary continental philosophy p. 57-67
Relation: Paul in Critical Contexts
Relation: http://store.fortresspress.com/store/productgroup/622/Paul-in-the-Grip-of-the-Philosophers-The-Apostle-and-Contemporary-Continental-Philosophy
Publisher: Fortress Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: In an almost hallucinogenic few pages at the close of The Time That Remains, Giorgio Agamben argues that one may trace the deep, if somewhat hidden, effect of the Apostle Paul on Benjamin's texts, texts that never mention Paul explicitly. I propose to offer a close reading of these carefully perverse pages, unpicking Agamben's arguments to see whether a very messianic Paul does indeed emerge from an equally messianic Benjamin, or whether it is an elaborate puppet play. Or, to shift the metaphor, I shall ask whether Agamben has discovered a window into the hidden world of Benjamin's thought, a window that opens up onto Paul himself, or whether the window is frosted, stained glass or perhaps a complex series of mirrors.
Subject: Giorgio Agamben; Paul the apostle; philosophy; religion
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059470
Identifier: uon:16612
Identifier: ISBN:9780800699123
Language: eng

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