St. Paul - A Screenplay

"Mingles an intellectual leftism with a Franciscan Catholicism." —New Statesman

About the author

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) was an Italian film director, poet, writer and one of the most controversial and provocative intellectuals of his time. He worked together with Mauro Bolognini, Bernardo Bertolucci and Franco Rossi. Mostly known for his first and last films, Accattone and Salò, as well as The Gospel According to St. Matthew and Decameron, he was also a prolific essayist and activist. He was murdered in 1975.Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the E?cole normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Pasolini Pier Paolo
• Assisted by: Alain Badiou (Foreword), Blanton Ward (Afterword), Castelli Elizabeth A. (Translation)
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.10.2025
• EAN: 9781836740384
• ISBN: 978-1-83674-038-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 250 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Scripts & Screenplays, Film scripts and screenplays