Description
| Product ID: | 9780804744713 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Title: | Saint Paul |
| Subtitle: | The Foundation of Universalism |
| Authors: | Author: Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy from c 1800, Christianity, Western philosophy, from c 1900 -, Christian theology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book revisits and revises some of the most basic concepts of time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, drawing on St. Paul's writings to rethink a new kind of radical faith in truth as an event, as the advent of the incalculable, a modality that remakes the pairing religious/secular. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Stanford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Stanford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-05-06 |
