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Title: Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier ISBN: 0-8047-4471-8 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Summary: A Philosophical Laicization of Paul
Comment: Badiou's extended essay on Paul may be a bit amateurish and crude from a theological and/or historical perspective [his intents and aims, he admits, are solely subjective], but despite this, it achieves a noteworthy amount of novel philosophical insight using the texts of Paul as a launchpad.
There are two sides to this book. On one hand, Badiou appears as a sort of atheist apologist for Paul, whom he seeks to clear of common insults against his person popular since Nietzsche and others (such as being a mysoginist, a despiser of earthly life, etc.) Badiou wants us to view Paul not in the popularized polemic distortion that pervades atheists in academia but rather as the prototypical 'poet-thinker of the event'.
On the other hand, in so far as one can say this of Paul, Badiou wants to extract from his portrayal a revolutionary philosophy of 'the event' and its founding of universiality. Here, the argument becomes complexly interwined with the words of Paul and Christian discourse; however, it brings with it a certain uncanny lucidity as the revolutionary universiality of the Resurrection in Paul's discourse sets the scene to disolve and overcome the particularities of the Judaic and Greek status quo.
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Title: The Puppet and the Dwarf : The Perverse Core of Christianity by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0262740257 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 12 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou, Justin Clemens, Oliver Feltham ISBN: 0826467245 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0415969212 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou, Peter Hallward ISBN: 1859844359 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Shortest Shadow : Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two by Alenka Zupancic ISBN: 0262740265 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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