Saint Paul
Subtitle: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Contributors: Ray Brassier (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: May 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780804744713
Subjects: Early Christian philosophy; New Testament; Saints & hagiography; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Religion; General; Biblical teaching; Universalism; Philosophy; Religion - Biblical Studies; Paul,; N.T; Biblical Studies - New Testament; Religion / Bible / Study / New Testament; the Apostle, Saint; Bible - Study - New Testament; Bible; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Epistles of Paul; N.T
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 Nietzsche: 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 subject: 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 today: 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.