One Divided by Another: Split and Conversion in Pasolini's San Paolo

Blasi, Luca Di

doi:doi:10.37050/ci-06_11

One Divided by AnotherSplit and Conversion in Pasolini’s San PaoloLuca Di Blasi

Keywords: Pasolini, Pier Paolo – San Paolo; Paul, Saint; multistable figures; motion picture play; Motion picture autorship; division (split); conversion; Badiou, Alain; Agamben, Giorgio

While Christian churches dramatically lost ground during the last decades (at least in European societies), in this very period one of the major Christian figures, Saint Paul, attracted the interest of leading ‘progressive’ intellectuals and philosophers like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, or Giorgio Agamben. In the following text, by focusing on Pasolini and his uncompleted film project San Paolo, I will concentrate on the notion of the split.

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