{"product_id":"saint-paul-the-foundation-of-universalism-9780804744713","title":"Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e holds the Chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Several of his books have been translated into English, including \u003ci\u003eManifesto for Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eDeleuze: The Clamor of Being\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eEthics: an Essay on the Understanding of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523772387602,"sku":"9780804744713","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f559e7c-5f1c-486c-aa1b-f5e8eb09f06a.jpg?v=1731167838","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/saint-paul-the-foundation-of-universalism-9780804744713","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}