Alain Badiou,Ray Brassier: Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism



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Author: Alain Badiou,Ray Brassier
Number of Pages: 128 pages
Published Date: 05 Jun 2003
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Country: Palo Alto, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780804744713
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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.