Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism

di Alain Badiou (Autore)

Ray Brassier (Traduttore)

Stanford University Press, 2003

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.

• Autore: Alain Badiou
• Traduttore: Ray Brassier
• Editore: Stanford University Press
• Collana: Cultural Memory in the Present
• Anno: 2003
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 277 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 177 gr.
• EAN: 9780804744713

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