+ Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism = Saint-Paul: la fondation de l'universalisme (2003 @1997 Badiou / Brassier), book (English ed.)
Alain Badiou, Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, tr. Ray Brassier (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003). English ed. of Saint-Paul: la fondation de l'universalisme (Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism / 1997 Badiou), book.
Abstract
"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 description.
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Contents
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.
External links
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