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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Saint Paul
• Author: Alain Badiou
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780804744713
• ISBN: 0804744718
• ID: 02759151
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 178 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 141 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. May 2003

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