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Dialectical Images and Critical Theory


 
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1. Title Title of document Dialectical Images and Critical Theory - Critical Theory and Early Christianity
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Matthew Whitlock; Seattle University;
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religion; Philosophy
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) Walter Benjamin; Gilles Deleuze; Alain Badiou; Judith Butler; Early Christian Thought; Critical Theory
 
5. Subject Subject classification Early Christian Thought; History of Ideas; Critical Theory
 
6. Description Abstract The chapters in the volume do not aim to resolve, through seamless syntheses, the tensions in dialectical images of the past and present. That is not theory’s chief purpose—at least in the minds of our four theorists. Theory here mediates between images, between the past and the present. What is more, the analyses in this volume are not organized under categories of biblical theology and synthesized by them. Rather, we try to discuss early Christian texts without recourse to biblical and traditional theological categories, even in their secular remains. We offer images not typically associated with early Christian texts: malls, arcades, and libraries; automaton chess players, and chess boards; bodies without organs, machines, rhizomes, national anthems, and call centers; political revolutions, Lenin, Stalin, and mathematical sets; performativity, drag, and mattering bodies, both human and non-human, earthly and celestial. And we offer mediating theories, concepts, and categories not traditionally associated with interpreting early Christian texts: gentrification; body-of-Christ-without-organs, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, simulacra and simulation, facialization; evental sites, mathematics, set theory, and queer theory. These images and theories challenge unspoken premises of our scholarship, and they produce new montages of thought.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 28-Oct-2022
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/42263
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.42263
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Critical Theory and Early Christianity
 
16. Language English=en English
 
18. Coverage Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) 4th Century CE; contemporary
 
19. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd