Saint Paul in contemporary political philosophy: a state of the art

Abstract

The following paper explores the state of the question of the works written by some contemporary philosophers (Franz Hinkelammert, Alain Badiou, Jacob Taubes, Giorgio Agamben and Enrique Dussel) about Pauline epistles. This essay is intended to clarify which are the main theoretical interests behind the interpretations of the Apostle to the Gentiles in the last decades and also pretends to shoe which interpretative lines predominate in each author. Likewise, the author formulates some hypotheses to explain the theoretical concerns that have guided the different approaches to Paul. 

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 121, 2009: 471-485