TY  - BOOK
AU  - Badiou, Alain
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TI  - Saint Paul
SN  - 0804744718, 9780804744713
U1  - 225.92 
CY  - U.S.A.
KW  - Universalism
KW  - Bible -- N.T. -- Paul's letters -- analysis and interpretation
KW  - Paul -- the Apostle, Saint -- Criticism and interpretation
N2  - 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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