Saint Paul : The Foundation of Universalism Hardback
by Alain Badiou
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:09/05/2003
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- ISBN:9780804744706
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:09/05/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804744706