Saint Paul: A Screenplay

Saint Paul: A Screenplay

Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. Written between the appearance of his renowned film Teorema and the shocking, controversial SalÃ², or the 120 Days of Sodom, St Paul was deemed too risky for investors. At once a political intervention and cinematic breakthrough, the script forces a revolutionary transformation on the contemporary legacy of Paul. In Pasoliniâ€™s kaleidoscope, we encounter fascistic movements, resistance fighters, and faltering revolutions, each of which reflects on aspects of the Pauline teachings. From Jerusalem to Wall Street and Greenwich Village, from the rise of SS troops to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr, hereâ€”as Alain Badiou writes in the forewordâ€”â€˜Paulâ€™s text crosses all these circumstances intact, as if it had foreseen them allâ€™.Â

This is a key addition to the growing debate around St Paul and to the proliferation of literature centred on the current turn to religion in philosophy and critical theory, which embraces contemporary figures such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj ÂŽiÂžek and Giorgio Agamben.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-07-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781781682883

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