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02747aam a2200349 i 4500 001 BC3A9F92CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190905010153 008 181017s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018050155 020 $a 0231192886 020 $a 9780231192880 035 $a (OCoLC)1066055086 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BD362 G68 2019 100 1 $a Gourgouris, Stathis, $d 1958- $e author. 245 14 $a The perils of the one / $c Stathis Gourgouris. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xxv, 234 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Transformation, not transcendence -- The lesson of Pierre Clastres -- On self-alteration -- Realism -- Paul's Greek -- Every religion is idolatry. 520 8 $a From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler or a transcendental deity, which they embrace with unquestioned devotion. Such obsessions precipitate contempt for the worldliness of real bodies in real time and refusal of responsibility and agency. In The Perils of the One, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of "monarchical thinking" the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political or moral, theological or secular. In wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical, intellectual and passionate, Gourgouris reads across politics and theology, literary and art criticism, psychoanalysis and feminism in a critique of both political theology and the metaphysics of secularism. He engages with a range of figures from the Apostle Paul and Trinitarian theologians, to Schmitt and Freud, to contemporary thinkers such as Pierre Clastres, Edward Said, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, and Luce Irigaray. At once a broad perspective on human history and a detailed examination of our present moment, The Perils of the One offers glimpses of what a counterpolitics of autonomy would look like from anarchic subjectivities that refuse external ideals, resist the allure of obedience, and embrace otherness. 600 10 $a Said, Edward W. 600 17 $a Said, Edward W. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00035281 650 0 $a Transcendence (Philosophy) 650 0 $a Critical theory. 650 0 $a Political science $x Philosophy. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220105020247.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC3A9F92CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search