Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism -- Alain Badiou

<p>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. </p> <p>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. </p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Alain Badiou<br><b>Publisher:</b> Stanford University Press<br><b>Published:</b> 05/06/2003<br><b>Pages:</b> 128<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.39lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.46h x 6.34w x 0.45d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780804744713<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Choice</i> 01/01/2004 pg. 924<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Alain Badiou holds the Chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Several of his books have been translated into English, including <i>Manifesto for Philosophy</i> (1999), <i>Deleuze: The Clamor of Bein