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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... remains , we are roughly in the year 50. About twenty years have passed since the death of Christ . It has been seventeen years since Paul re- ceived the Damascus convocation . He is in his fifties and refers to him- self as " the old ...
... remains , we are roughly in the year 50. About twenty years have passed since the death of Christ . It has been seventeen years since Paul re- ceived the Damascus convocation . He is in his fifties and refers to him- self as " the old ...
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... remains bound to the con- ditions for knowledge . For Paul , it is not a question of knowledge , but of the advent of a subject . Can there be another subject , a subjective path other than the one we know , and which Paul calls the ...
... remains bound to the con- ditions for knowledge . For Paul , it is not a question of knowledge , but of the advent of a subject . Can there be another subject , a subjective path other than the one we know , and which Paul calls the ...
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... remains an empty , in- active category . That which will later be the path of death , or that which makes the subject swing over into the place of the dead , is not living . " Be- fore the law , " the path of death is dead . But by the ...
... remains an empty , in- active category . That which will later be the path of death , or that which makes the subject swing over into the place of the dead , is not living . " Be- fore the law , " the path of death is dead . But by the ...
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