Saint Paul: The Foundation of UniversalismStanford University Press, 2003 - 111 pages 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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... monotheism and official polytheism . However , this reply is unconvincing , because when Paul talks about the Greeks , or about Greek , he only very rarely associates these words with a religious belief . As a rule , he is talking about ...
... monotheism and official polytheism . However , this reply is unconvincing , because when Paul talks about the Greeks , or about Greek , he only very rarely associates these words with a religious belief . As a rule , he is talking about ...
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... monotheism for which Moses is the de- centered founding figure ( the Egyptian as Other of the origin ) , Chris- tianity raises the question of the relation that sons have to the Law , with the symbolic murder of the Father in the ...
... monotheism for which Moses is the de- centered founding figure ( the Egyptian as Other of the origin ) , Chris- tianity raises the question of the relation that sons have to the Law , with the symbolic murder of the Father in the ...
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... Monotheism can be understood only by taking into consideration the whole of humanity . Unless addressed to all , the One crumbles and disap- pears . But , for Paul , the law always designates a particularity , hence a dif- ference . It ...
... Monotheism can be understood only by taking into consideration the whole of humanity . Unless addressed to all , the One crumbles and disap- pears . But , for Paul , the law always designates a particularity , hence a dif- ference . It ...
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