Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, Paperback
de: Alain Badiou
Publicat de: Stanford University Press
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- Author: Alain Badiou Translator: Ray Brassier
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.
 
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- Choice - pg. 924 - 01/01/2004
General | |
Anul | 2012, 2003 |
Autor | Alain Badiou |
Cod de bare | 9780804744713 |
Colectie | Cultural Memory in the Present |
Dimensiuni | H: 21.5cm | l: 14.1cm | 1cm | 178g, 214 x 161 |
Editura | Stanford University Press |
ISBN | 0804744718 |
Limba | Engleza |
Pagini | 128 |
Format | Softcover, Brosata |
Traducator | Ray Brassier |