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Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory of the Present (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Saint PaulThis 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.
Full description- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Published: 31 May 2003
- Format: Paperback 128 pages
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- Categories: Encyclopaedias & Reference Works | Philosophy | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500 | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Biblical Studies & Exegesis | Christian Theology
- ISBN 13: 9780804744713 ISBN 10: 0804744718
- Sales rank: 36,675
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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.
