One divided by another : split and conversion in Pasolini's "San Paolo"
- By focusing on Pasolini's uncompleted film project "San Paolo", Luca Di Blasi's article 'One Divided by Another: Split and Conversion in Pasolini's "San Paolo"' analyzes the notion of split (the split in the structure of time and, above all, the split of the figure of Paul) and concentrates especially on the very moment of Paul's Damascene conversion. Di Blasi refers to the "Kippbild" as a model that can be used to understand better certain ambivalences in Pasolini's Paul. Locating Pasolini's reading of the founder of the Church in a triangulation with two major contemporary philosophers, Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben, Di Blasi shows that two opposing possibilities of interpreting Paul - as militant subject of a universal event and its necessary consequences (Badiou) and as representative of softness, weakness, poverty, "homo sacer" (Agamben) - fit perfectly with the two aspects of Pasolini's Paul. Pasolini's profoundly split Paul thus represents a dichotomy which disunites two major figures of contemporary leftist thought.
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| Author: | Luca Di Blasi |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-519792 |
| URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-06/blasi_one-divided-by-another.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_11 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-85132-681-9 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | The scandal of self-contradiction : Pasolini's multistable subjectivities, geographies, traditions ; Cultural Inquiry ; 6 |
| Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
| Place of publication: | Wien |
| Editor: | Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/12/11 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2019/12/20 |
| Tag: | Conversion; Division (split); Motion picture authorship; Motion picture play; Multistable figures Pasolini, Pier Paolo: San Paolo |
| GND Keyword: | Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Paulus, Apostel, Heiliger; Badiou, Alain; Agamben, Giorgio; Drehbuch; Drehbuchautor; Konversion <Religion>; Spaltung |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 189 |
| Last Page: | 207 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 458872067 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| 8 Literatur / 85 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen / 850 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zum Film | |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
