Saint Paul - (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Alain Badiou (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><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><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"This book is a daring and provocative confrontation of religion and secular practice, the aim of which is to recover the radical core of Paul's militant philosophical, or 'antiphilosophical, ' project." --James I. Porter, University of Michigan<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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.--Peter Takac "<i>Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alain Badiou</b> 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 Being</i> (2000) and <i>Ethics: an Essay on the Understanding of Evil</i> (2001).
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