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.
| ISBN: | 9780804744706 |
| Publication date: | 9th May 2003 |
| Author: | Alain Badiou |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 111 pages |
| Series: | Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Genres: |
New Testaments Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Philosophy |
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.
Saint Paul features in the following genres: New Testaments, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Philosophy
Saint Paul is available in Hardback, Paperback
Saint Paul was written by Alain Badiou and published by Stanford University Press
Saint Paul has 111 pages
Yes it is part of Cultural Memory in the Present series