num_pages: 128
description: In this bold and provocative work, French philosopher Alain Badiou proposes a startling reinterpretation of St. Paul. For Badiou, Paul is neither the venerable saint embalmed by Christian tradition, nor the venomous priest execrated by philosophers like he is instead a profoundly original and still revolutionary thinker whose invention of Christianity weaves truth and subjectivity together in a way that continues to be relevant for us today. In this work, Badiou argues that Paul delineates a new figure of the the bearer of a universal truth that simultaneously shatters the strictures of Judaic Law and the conventions of the Greek Logos. Badiou shows that the Pauline figure of the subject still harbors a genuinely revolutionary potential the subject is that which refuses to submit to the order of the world as we know it and struggles for a new one instead.
language: English
title: Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
titlecomplete: Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present)
genres: Christianity, France, History, Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Christian, Nonfiction, Theory, Politics
ratings_count: 614
publisher: Stanford University Press