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Saint Paul : the foundation of universalism

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--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2003
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 111 pages ; 23 cm.
9780804744706, 9780804744713, 080474470X, 0804744718
51093150
Paul : our contemporary
Who is Paul?
Texts and contexts
Theory of discourses
The division of the subject
The antidialectic of death and resurrection
Paul against the law
Love as universal power
Hope
Universality and the traversal of differences
Originally published: Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1997
Translated from the French