Saint Paul - The Foundation of Universalism

Zusatztext "Badiou introduces the reader to the notion that philosophy stands somewhere beyond the commonplace . . . [and] illustrates the way in which during [St. Paul's] time Paul decided that for God particularities such as nationality or sex are unimportant and therefore everybody is (compared to God) just a human being." Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. > Zusammenfassung This book revisits and revises some of the most basic concepts of time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, drawing on St. Paul's 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.

Product details

• Authors: Badiou Alain, Alain Badiou, Badiou Alain
• Assisted by: Ray Brassier (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2003
• EAN: 9780804744713
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4471-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works