Pasolini's Specters of Paul
This essay explores the remarkable radicalities as well as ironies of the Paul featured in both Pasolini's screenplay and other receptions of Paul's letters. Pasolini's depiction stages a series of potential historical correspondences by setting the words written or attributed to the...
| Published in: | Biblical interpretation |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Paul Apostle
/ Reception
/ Film
/ Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922-1975
/ Engels, Friedrich 1820-1895
/ Sexuality
/ Liberation
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Militancy
B Friedrich Engels B Sexual Liberation B Time B Paul |
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| Summary: | This essay explores the remarkable radicalities as well as ironies of the Paul featured in both Pasolini's screenplay and other receptions of Paul's letters. Pasolini's depiction stages a series of potential historical correspondences by setting the words written or attributed to the apostle (in those letters and the Acts of the Apostles) into the times of Pasolini's own life. This juxtaposition allows for a more complex view of the radical, passionate, but manipulative saint and more recent politics of revolution, corruption, and accommodation. The tension between two different views of Paul, organizing militant cells and struggling with bodily weakness, then, provide entry points for identification with and interrogation of notions of sexual liberation and political transformation. These political investments are brought into further relief throughout by situating both Pasolini and Paul in a genealogy of Marxist thinkers and organizers, from Engels and Lenin, through Benjamin, to Agamben and Badiou, surfacing important new insights about the Paul of history and of reception in the West. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-02745P03 |