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.

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Alain Badiou

In Praise of Love

Being and Event (Bloomsbury Revelations)

Metapolitics (Radical Thinkers)

Our Wound is Not So Recent: Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers)

Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy

Can Politics Be Thought? (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)