BADIOU BEYOND FORMALIZATION? ON THE ETHICS OF THE SUBJECT.
The paper addresses the tension between Badiou's claim that his theory of the subject must be considered first of all as a 'formal' theory, and a certain genealogical history of his notion of the subject. In the latter case, it seems that a very specific political experience has played a crucial rol...
| Publicado en: | Filozofia Vol. 72; no. 9; pp. 724 - 736 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=126371000&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 126371000 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0046385X 1VQE jtl: Filozofia issn: 0046385X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2017 vid: 72 iid: 9 pid: 55711 pub: Filozofia artinfo: ui: 126371000 ppf: 724 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 591KB tig: atl: BADIOU BEYOND FORMALIZATION? ON THE ETHICS OF THE SUBJECT. aug: au: PERSIJN, JAN-JASPER affil: Centre for the History of Philosophy and Continental Philosophy (HICO), Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium su: Subjectivity Subject (Philosophy) Badiou, Alain, 1937- Political philosophy Theory of the Subject (Book) Ethics sug: subj: Subjectivity Subject (Philosophy) Badiou, Alain, 1937- Political philosophy Theory of the Subject (Book) Ethics keyword: Badiou Formalism ab: The paper addresses the tension between Badiou's claim that his theory of the subject must be considered first of all as a 'formal' theory, and a certain genealogical history of his notion of the subject. In the latter case, it seems that a very specific political experience has played a crucial role (at least) for Badiou in his early conception of the subject. More particularly, the paper addresses this tension from an ethical perspective. As for the claim repeatedly made in his work (that the subject poses in the first place a formal problem), one can identify an implicitly ethical disposition in the formalization itself. At the same time, there are several formulations in his writings that seem to exceed the formal level. The paper examines four concepts or formulations appearing in his three main books (Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Logics of Worlds) that seem to express a more or less explicit ethical dimension, namely his theory of affects, the principle 'to decide the undecidable', the contrast between 'fidelity' and 'confidence' and Badiou's answer to the question What is it to live? The paper's aim is to pinpoint the difference between the ethical stance implied in the formal description of Badiou's theory of the subject and an explicit 'ethics of the subject'. The author's hypothesis is that the latter embodies a dimension that remains tacit in the formal expression of the subject's 'household' alone: Badiou's subjectivity itself. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Filozofia is the property of Filozofia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Filozofia holder: Filozofia dt: @attributes: year: 2017 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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