Enactment, Politics, and Truth: Pauline Themes in Agamben, Badiou, and Heidegger [Paperback]

Enactment, Politics, and Truthexplores the interpretations of Saint Paul by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Martin Heidegger. These interpretations are characterized by substantial thematic overlap that can be traced back to a key subject: the articulation of Pauline faith (pistis). Although each thinker approaches the issue from a different angle, they all interpret Paulinepistisby focusing on how it is enacted, articulated, and expressed in Saint Paul's concrete situation. Antonio Cimino sheds light on why Agamben, Badiou, and Heidegger address Paulinepistisand what kind of philosophical motives underlie their readings.Antonio Ciminois Assistant Professor in the History of Contemporary Philosophy at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His books includePh?nomenologie und Vollzug: Heideggers performative Philosophie des faktischen Lebens(2013) and, as co-editor,Rethinking Faith: Heidegger between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein(Bloomsbury, 2016).

Antonio Cimino brings clarity to this larger conversation by isolating the Pauline theme ofpistisas a way of limiting the conversation partners. This leads him to Martin Heidegger, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben & This book, in a mere 163 pages, distills, analyzes, critiques their work, and challenges their conclusions. Reading Religion

Cimino's book is top-notch scholarship coupled with significant and enriching philosophical analysis, and is essential reading for anyone interested in not only Continental thinking regarding St. Paul, but also Continental thinking and its Postmodern elements in general. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Cimino'sEnactment, Politics, and Truthis a seminal work on the 'Pauline Renaissance' in 20th-century continental philosophy. Cimino provides a systematic overview of the reappropriation of the Pauline epistles in Heidegger, Agamben, and Badiou, showing that in contrast to Nietzscl)