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...

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Main Author: Jennings, Theodore W. 1942-2020 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2019, Volume: 27, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 507-517
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Paul Apostle / Reception / Film / Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922-1975 / Engels, Friedrich 1820-1895 / Sexuality / Liberation
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.
ISSN:1568-5152
Contains:Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685152-02745P03