Synopses & Reviews
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.
Book News Annotation:
French philosopher Badiou offers a daring reinterpretation of St.
Paul. Instead of the venerable saint of Christian tradition, or the
venomous priest execrated by philosophers such as Nietzsche, Badiou
portrays Paul as an original and still-revolutionary thinker whose
invention of Christianity melds truth and subjectivity in a way that
continues to be relevant today. As a bearer of universal truths that
simultaneously shatter Judaic Law and Greek Logos, Paul stands as a
countercultural figure who struggles for a new and better world order.
Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
This book revisits and revises some of the most basic concepts of time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, drawing on St. Pauls 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.
Synopsis:
“This book is a daring and provocative confrontation of religion and secular practice, the aim of which is to recover the radical core of Pauls militant philosophical, or ‘antiphilosophical, project.” James I. Porter,University of Michigan
About the Author
Alain Badiou holds the Chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Manifesto for Philosophy (1999), Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (2000) and Ethics: an Essay on the Understanding of Evil (2001).
Table of Contents
Paul : our contemporary — Who is Paul? — Texts and contexts — Theory of discourses — The division of the subject — The antidialectic of death and resurrection — Paul against the law — Love as universal power — Hope — Universality and the traversal of differences.
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