{"product_id":"st-paul-by-pier-paolo-pasolini-9781836740384","title":"St. Paul","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. Written between the appearance of his renowned film \u003cem\u003eTeorema\u003c\/em\u003e and the shocking, controversial \u003cem\u003eSalò, or the 120 Days of Sodom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSt Paul\u003c\/em\u003e was deemed too risky for investors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once a political intervention and cinematic breakthrough, the script forces a revolutionary transformation on the contemporary legacy of Paul. In Pasolini'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, and from the rise of SS troops to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr, here—as Alain Badiou writes in the foreword—\"Paul's text crosses all these circumstances intact, as if it had foreseen them all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a key addition to the growing debate around \u003cem\u003eSt Paul\u003c\/em\u003e 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 Žižek, and Giorgio Agamben.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932464464108,"sku":"9781836740384","price":38.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781836740384-st-paul.jpg?v=1783863671","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/st-paul-by-pier-paolo-pasolini-9781836740384","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}