保羅復興：當代基進政治的新聖像？

Abstract

先後短短幾年之間，陶卜斯《保羅的政治神學》(Taubes 2004)、巴迪烏《聖保羅：普世主義的奠始》(Badiou 2003)、阿岡本《餘留的時間：羅馬書評論》(Agamben 2005a)，三位成熟的思想人物，投入閱讀保羅書信其中一部，《羅馬書》。他們各自挑選了三、五章的關鍵節段深入閱讀，思考他們認為迫切的關鍵問題。他們閱讀的興趣不是神學的，而是在政治思想上嘗試回應當前世界政治的困局。本文評論這三部著作，尤其是將巴迪烏的普世主義理念以及阿岡本的彌賽亞政治分別關連於其各自的哲學脈絡與政治構想中理解，並提出批判的質疑。

This article seeks to review critically three highly original reinterpretations of Saint Paul: Jacob Taubes' The Political Theology of Paul, Alain Badiou's Saint Paul: the Foundation of Universalism; and Giorgio Agamben's The Time that Remains: A commentary on the Letter to the Romans. Each of the three philosophers presented important insights into the political theology of Paul. Badiou shows that Paul delineates a new figure of the subject as the bearer of a universal truth and that the Pauline figure of the subject still harbors a genuinely revolutionary potential today. Agamben explores the problem of messianic life and argues that Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history constitutes an appropriation of Paul's concept of ”remaining time.” This article particularly examines Badiou and Agamben's interpretations of Paul in relating to their philosophical problematic and to their world political projections.