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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... tion remains totally incalculable and it is from there that one must begin , Paul's faith is that from which he begins as a subject , and nothing leads up to it . The event " it happened , " purely and simply , in the anonymity of a ...
... tion remains totally incalculable and it is from there that one must begin , Paul's faith is that from which he begins as a subject , and nothing leads up to it . The event " it happened , " purely and simply , in the anonymity of a ...
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... tion of the Jews , or the action of Resistance fighters . But I note that the neo - Nazi maniac harbors a collector's memory for the period he reveres , and that , remembering Nazi atrocities in minute detail , he relishes and wishes he ...
... tion of the Jews , or the action of Resistance fighters . But I note that the neo - Nazi maniac harbors a collector's memory for the period he reveres , and that , remembering Nazi atrocities in minute detail , he relishes and wishes he ...
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... tion , which is more popular in the eyes of the Church , just as ordinary syndicalism points to people's protests the better to be wary of their “ un- realistic " political enthusiasms . The problem is that of knowing what relation hope ...
... tion , which is more popular in the eyes of the Church , just as ordinary syndicalism points to people's protests the better to be wary of their “ un- realistic " political enthusiasms . The problem is that of knowing what relation hope ...
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