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The Jesus Potential closely examines Giorgio Agamben’s recent book Pilate and Jesus (Stanford UP, 2015) and his use of Pilate to construct different frameworks for understanding Jesus’s subjectivity as one who is “handed over.” This largely is explored in the context of Agamben’s reading of the key seven scenes in the Jesus’s trial in which Pilate oscillates between his role as Rome’s legal surrogate and the city’s practical, informal negotiator. The latter sections of the chapter present François Laruelle’s concept of non-standard philosophy as it relates to seeing as a “victim-in-person” and as a “cloned Christ.”
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Taylor, V.E. (2017). The Jesus Potential. In: Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60991-1_5
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