"Separated unto the gospel of God" : political theology in Badiou and Agamben

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    Abstract

    This paper begins with a fairly obvious comparison of two texts. My hope, however, is that out of this comparison a supplement will emerge-an excrescence that is contained by neither and that exposes the limits of both. The texts under consideration are Alain Badiou's Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism and Giorgio Agamben's The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans. These two works have taken center stage in a recent, and until recently largely unpredictable, Pauline revival among social and legal theorists. Neither author makes any claim to being a Paul expert, and neither, it should be made clear at the outset, do I. I am an interested amateur at best; but what I take from Badiou and Agamben is less a new erudition with respect to Biblical exegesis, than a new-sometimes exhilarating, sometimes perplexing-effort to think through the problem of "political theology."
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)279-292
    Number of pages14
    JournalSeattle University. Law Review
    Volume32
    Issue number2
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

    Keywords

    • Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul
    • political theology

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