Saint Paul <subTitle>The Foundation of Universalism</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Badiou, Alain</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">8:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Stanford University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>111tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>22 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <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.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier</note> <subject> <topic>Universalism</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- N.T. -- Paul's letters -- analysis and interpretation</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Paul -- the Apostle, Saint -- Criticism and interpretation</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">225.92</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B136-A32</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0804744718, 9780804744713</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14791/31xmdzbgddl.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14791/31xmdzbgddl.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071414.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>