Carl A. Raschke
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231173841
- eISBN:
- 9780231539623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231173841.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Both insurrection and resurrection derive from the same Latin root through which we obtain the word surge. It is the power of resurrection that eventually decides the minute of insurrection. A ...
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Both insurrection and resurrection derive from the same Latin root through which we obtain the word surge. It is the power of resurrection that eventually decides the minute of insurrection. A genealogy of the political yields the truth of this resurrection power, by which the militant is eminently sustained. It also reveals the insurrectionary moment. That is the task of political theology today amid the enveloping crisis of liberal democracy.Less
Both insurrection and resurrection derive from the same Latin root through which we obtain the word surge. It is the power of resurrection that eventually decides the minute of insurrection. A genealogy of the political yields the truth of this resurrection power, by which the militant is eminently sustained. It also reveals the insurrectionary moment. That is the task of political theology today amid the enveloping crisis of liberal democracy.
Alex Ling
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641130
- eISBN:
- 9780748652631
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641130.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. It employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship – ...
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This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. It employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship – namely, ‘can cinema be thought?’ Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Second, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether or not it is truly ‘artistic’. Finally, the author explores in what ways we can rethink the consequences of the fact that cinema thinks. In answering these questions, he uses well-known films ranging from Hiroshima mon amour to Vertigo to The Matrix to illustrate Badiou's philosophy, as well as to consider the ways in which his work can be extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of cinema.Less
This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. It employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship – namely, ‘can cinema be thought?’ Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Second, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether or not it is truly ‘artistic’. Finally, the author explores in what ways we can rethink the consequences of the fact that cinema thinks. In answering these questions, he uses well-known films ranging from Hiroshima mon amour to Vertigo to The Matrix to illustrate Badiou's philosophy, as well as to consider the ways in which his work can be extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of cinema.
A J Bartlett
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748643752
- eISBN:
- 9780748652655
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643752.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This book is an interrogation of Plato's entire work using the concepts and categories of Alain Badiou. It critically addresses and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a ‘Platonism ...
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This book is an interrogation of Plato's entire work using the concepts and categories of Alain Badiou. It critically addresses and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a ‘Platonism of the multiple’ and that philosophy today requires a ‘platonic gesture’. Examining the relationship between Badiou and Plato, the book transforms our perception of Plato's philosophy and rethinks the central philosophical question: ‘what is education?’ The book corrects many errors in the existing commentary on Badiou's work and extracts a key Platonic theme crucial at every level of culture today: education.Less
This book is an interrogation of Plato's entire work using the concepts and categories of Alain Badiou. It critically addresses and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a ‘Platonism of the multiple’ and that philosophy today requires a ‘platonic gesture’. Examining the relationship between Badiou and Plato, the book transforms our perception of Plato's philosophy and rethinks the central philosophical question: ‘what is education?’ The book corrects many errors in the existing commentary on Badiou's work and extracts a key Platonic theme crucial at every level of culture today: education.
Oliver Marchart
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624973
- eISBN:
- 9780748672066
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624973.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This book, a wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponents, presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual ...
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This book, a wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponents, presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between ‘politics’ (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political forms of action) and ‘the political’ (a much more radical aspect which cannot be restricted to the realms of institutional politics). It is also an introductory overview of post-foundationalism and the tradition of ‘left Heideggerianism’: the political thought of contemporary theorists who make frequent use of the idea of political difference: Jean-Luc Nancy, Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou and Ernesto Laclau. After an overview of current trends in social post-foundationalism and a genealogical chapter on the historical emergence of the difference between the concepts of ‘politics’ and ‘the political’, the work of individual theorists is presented and discussed at length. Individual chapters are presented on the political thought of Jean-Luc Nancy (including Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe), Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou, and Ernesto Laclau (including Chantal Mouffe). Overall, the book offers an elaboration of the idea of a post-foundational conception of politics.Less
This book, a wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponents, presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between ‘politics’ (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political forms of action) and ‘the political’ (a much more radical aspect which cannot be restricted to the realms of institutional politics). It is also an introductory overview of post-foundationalism and the tradition of ‘left Heideggerianism’: the political thought of contemporary theorists who make frequent use of the idea of political difference: Jean-Luc Nancy, Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou and Ernesto Laclau. After an overview of current trends in social post-foundationalism and a genealogical chapter on the historical emergence of the difference between the concepts of ‘politics’ and ‘the political’, the work of individual theorists is presented and discussed at length. Individual chapters are presented on the political thought of Jean-Luc Nancy (including Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe), Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou, and Ernesto Laclau (including Chantal Mouffe). Overall, the book offers an elaboration of the idea of a post-foundational conception of politics.
A. J. Bartlett
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748643752
- eISBN:
- 9780748652655
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643752.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter argues that Plato's singular difficulty in and by the constitution of the Republic was in maintaining this subversive and revolutionary education of the educators within the ...
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This chapter argues that Plato's singular difficulty in and by the constitution of the Republic was in maintaining this subversive and revolutionary education of the educators within the configuration of the new form of the state. It explains that this problem resulted from his attempts to design a curricular structure for maintaining this education and in so doing made a particular form of representation ‘not appear’. It highlights the differences between Alan Badiou and Gregory Vlastos' interpretations of Plato's dialogues.Less
This chapter argues that Plato's singular difficulty in and by the constitution of the Republic was in maintaining this subversive and revolutionary education of the educators within the configuration of the new form of the state. It explains that this problem resulted from his attempts to design a curricular structure for maintaining this education and in so doing made a particular form of representation ‘not appear’. It highlights the differences between Alan Badiou and Gregory Vlastos' interpretations of Plato's dialogues.
Jean-Jacques Lecercle
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638000
- eISBN:
- 9780748652648
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638000.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? And to what extent does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? Anyone who has read contemporary European philosophers has ...
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Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? And to what extent does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? Anyone who has read contemporary European philosophers has had to ask such questions. This book is an attempt to answer them, by considering the ‘strong readings’ Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze impose on the texts they read. The author demonstrates that philosophers need literature as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature (where literature is a mere object of analysis), but in philosophy and literature, a heady and unusual mix.Less
Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? And to what extent does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? Anyone who has read contemporary European philosophers has had to ask such questions. This book is an attempt to answer them, by considering the ‘strong readings’ Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze impose on the texts they read. The author demonstrates that philosophers need literature as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature (where literature is a mere object of analysis), but in philosophy and literature, a heady and unusual mix.
Jean-Jacques Lecercle
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638000
- eISBN:
- 9780748652648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638000.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This book focuses on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze's reading of literature. It suggests that literature plays a crucial role in the contents of philosophers' respective positions and attempts to ...
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This book focuses on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze's reading of literature. It suggests that literature plays a crucial role in the contents of philosophers' respective positions and attempts to describe the authors' style, their use of rhetoric, and their taste for metaphor and/or narrative. The book explains that Badiou and Deleuze are two of the most important contemporary philosophers, and contends that the best way to enter the (non-)relation then is through the way they read literature.Less
This book focuses on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze's reading of literature. It suggests that literature plays a crucial role in the contents of philosophers' respective positions and attempts to describe the authors' style, their use of rhetoric, and their taste for metaphor and/or narrative. The book explains that Badiou and Deleuze are two of the most important contemporary philosophers, and contends that the best way to enter the (non-)relation then is through the way they read literature.
Alex Ling
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641130
- eISBN:
- 9780748652631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641130.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the relevance of Alain Badiou's philosophy for the analysis of cinema. It explains that of all the arts, cinema is without doubt the ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the relevance of Alain Badiou's philosophy for the analysis of cinema. It explains that of all the arts, cinema is without doubt the most universal, the most immediate and the most paradoxical, and argues that as a mass art, cinema speaks to humanity in a way that no other art is capable of. The chapter discusses Badiou's idea of cinema as an art that both thinks and rethinks, and suggests that this cinema has yet to appear.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the relevance of Alain Badiou's philosophy for the analysis of cinema. It explains that of all the arts, cinema is without doubt the most universal, the most immediate and the most paradoxical, and argues that as a mass art, cinema speaks to humanity in a way that no other art is capable of. The chapter discusses Badiou's idea of cinema as an art that both thinks and rethinks, and suggests that this cinema has yet to appear.
Martin Puchner
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199730322
- eISBN:
- 9780199852796
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730322.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in action, not ideas. ...
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Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in action, not ideas. Challenging both views, this book shows that theater and philosophy have always been crucially intertwined. Plato is the presiding genius of this alternative history, not only as a theorist of drama, but also as a dramatist himself, one who developed a dialogue-based dramaturgy that differs markedly from the standard, Aristotelian view of theater. This book discovers scores of dramatic adaptations of Platonic dialogues, the most immediate proof of Plato's hitherto unrecognized influence on theater history. Plato was central to modern drama as well, with figures such as Wilde, Shaw, Pirandello, Brecht, and Stoppard using Plato to create a new drama of ideas. The book also considers complementary developments in philosophy, offering a theatrical history of philosophy that includes Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Burke, Sartre, Camus, and Deleuze. These philosophers use theatrical terms, concepts, and even dramatic techniques in their writings. The book mobilizes this double history of philosophical theater and theatrical philosophy to subject current habits of thought to critical scrutiny. In dialogue with contemporary thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum, Iris Murdoch, and Alain Badiou, the book formulates the contours of a “dramatic Platonism”. This new Platonism does not seek to return to an idealist theory of forms, but it does point beyond the reigning philosophies of the body, of materialism and of cultural relativism.Less
Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in action, not ideas. Challenging both views, this book shows that theater and philosophy have always been crucially intertwined. Plato is the presiding genius of this alternative history, not only as a theorist of drama, but also as a dramatist himself, one who developed a dialogue-based dramaturgy that differs markedly from the standard, Aristotelian view of theater. This book discovers scores of dramatic adaptations of Platonic dialogues, the most immediate proof of Plato's hitherto unrecognized influence on theater history. Plato was central to modern drama as well, with figures such as Wilde, Shaw, Pirandello, Brecht, and Stoppard using Plato to create a new drama of ideas. The book also considers complementary developments in philosophy, offering a theatrical history of philosophy that includes Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Burke, Sartre, Camus, and Deleuze. These philosophers use theatrical terms, concepts, and even dramatic techniques in their writings. The book mobilizes this double history of philosophical theater and theatrical philosophy to subject current habits of thought to critical scrutiny. In dialogue with contemporary thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum, Iris Murdoch, and Alain Badiou, the book formulates the contours of a “dramatic Platonism”. This new Platonism does not seek to return to an idealist theory of forms, but it does point beyond the reigning philosophies of the body, of materialism and of cultural relativism.
Lisa Siraganian
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199796557
- eISBN:
- 9780199932542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199796557.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The coda extends Olson’s and Baraka’s theories of breath and bodily incorporation from the previous chapter to quite different forms of contemporary writing, ranging from Native American Leslie ...
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The coda extends Olson’s and Baraka’s theories of breath and bodily incorporation from the previous chapter to quite different forms of contemporary writing, ranging from Native American Leslie Marmon Silko’s photo-poems, Sacred Water (1993), Juliana Spahr’s post-9/11 poem, This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (2005), to the various theoretical reappraisals of universalism in Judith Butler’s political theory and in Alain Badiou’s Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (2003). We see that Olson and Baraka anticipate various recent attempts in art, literature, and critical theory to depict communitarian or other forms of social connection via breath or particularity in order to avoid universalism. This attempt is examined, critiqued, and contextualized. The Coda suggests that the aesthetic and political debates that Modernism’s Other Work explores continue in various texts and theoretical discussions ongoing today.Less
The coda extends Olson’s and Baraka’s theories of breath and bodily incorporation from the previous chapter to quite different forms of contemporary writing, ranging from Native American Leslie Marmon Silko’s photo-poems, Sacred Water (1993), Juliana Spahr’s post-9/11 poem, This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (2005), to the various theoretical reappraisals of universalism in Judith Butler’s political theory and in Alain Badiou’s Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (2003). We see that Olson and Baraka anticipate various recent attempts in art, literature, and critical theory to depict communitarian or other forms of social connection via breath or particularity in order to avoid universalism. This attempt is examined, critiqued, and contextualized. The Coda suggests that the aesthetic and political debates that Modernism’s Other Work explores continue in various texts and theoretical discussions ongoing today.
Martin Puchner
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199730322
- eISBN:
- 9780199852796
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730322.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
The influence of Plato on modern philosophy is immense. Through his dramatic writing, he is a constant reminder of the tangible, the personal, and the concrete. This chapter advocates a way of ...
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The influence of Plato on modern philosophy is immense. Through his dramatic writing, he is a constant reminder of the tangible, the personal, and the concrete. This chapter advocates a way of rethinking Plato in modern times through a discussion of contemporary Platonism. This objective is attained by presenting a number of contemporary philosophers who are self-declared Platonists. This chapter discusses in detail three Platonists that were inclined towards dramatic Platonism: Iris Murdoch and her critique of language philosophy and relativism, Martha Nussbaum and her program that accords intelligence to emotions and envisions the work of emotions as some kind of Platonist ascent, and Alain Badiou and his approach to dramatic Platonism with continental philosophy.Less
The influence of Plato on modern philosophy is immense. Through his dramatic writing, he is a constant reminder of the tangible, the personal, and the concrete. This chapter advocates a way of rethinking Plato in modern times through a discussion of contemporary Platonism. This objective is attained by presenting a number of contemporary philosophers who are self-declared Platonists. This chapter discusses in detail three Platonists that were inclined towards dramatic Platonism: Iris Murdoch and her critique of language philosophy and relativism, Martha Nussbaum and her program that accords intelligence to emotions and envisions the work of emotions as some kind of Platonist ascent, and Alain Badiou and his approach to dramatic Platonism with continental philosophy.
Robert Boncardo
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474429528
- eISBN:
- 9781474445092
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429528.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière recounts the radical readings of Mallarmé’s seminal poems by some of France’s most important 20th century thinkers. The ...
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Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière recounts the radical readings of Mallarmé’s seminal poems by some of France’s most important 20th century thinkers. The book attempts to answer the question of why Mallarmé — one of modernity’s most ingenious yet obscure poets — was so important to French philosophers. With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature situates Mallarmé with these thinkers’ philosophical and political projects. As the first work of English-language scholarship on each of these thinker’s readings of Mallarmé, Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature is also the first to bring these thinkers into dialogue, locating the points of contact and difference between their readings of the great Symbolist poet. Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature also includes a sustained reflection on the various ways literature has been conceived of politically by 20th century French thinkers, and argues that these modalities of reading literature politically have today reached a point of exhaustion. Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature thus culminates in a plea for renewed formulations of the link between politics and literature.Less
Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière recounts the radical readings of Mallarmé’s seminal poems by some of France’s most important 20th century thinkers. The book attempts to answer the question of why Mallarmé — one of modernity’s most ingenious yet obscure poets — was so important to French philosophers. With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature situates Mallarmé with these thinkers’ philosophical and political projects. As the first work of English-language scholarship on each of these thinker’s readings of Mallarmé, Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature is also the first to bring these thinkers into dialogue, locating the points of contact and difference between their readings of the great Symbolist poet. Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature also includes a sustained reflection on the various ways literature has been conceived of politically by 20th century French thinkers, and argues that these modalities of reading literature politically have today reached a point of exhaustion. Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature thus culminates in a plea for renewed formulations of the link between politics and literature.
Heidrun Friese (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239567
- eISBN:
- 9781846314179
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846314179
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasizing ‘the moment’. ‘The moment’ demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and ...
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Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasizing ‘the moment’. ‘The moment’ demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetition and rupture and continuity. This book addresses the key questions posed by ‘the moment’, considering writers such as Nietzsche, Husserl, Benjamin and Badiou, and elucidates the connections between social theory, philosophy, literary theory and history that are opened up by this notion.Less
Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasizing ‘the moment’. ‘The moment’ demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetition and rupture and continuity. This book addresses the key questions posed by ‘the moment’, considering writers such as Nietzsche, Husserl, Benjamin and Badiou, and elucidates the connections between social theory, philosophy, literary theory and history that are opened up by this notion.
Nathan Coombs
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748698998
- eISBN:
- 9781474416047
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748698998.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This book challenges the use of the terms 'history' and 'event' to register the shift from historical necessity in Marxism to contingent events in contemporary philosophy. It argues both classical ...
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This book challenges the use of the terms 'history' and 'event' to register the shift from historical necessity in Marxism to contingent events in contemporary philosophy. It argues both classical Marxism and a strand of French theory after Louis Althusser understand history and event not as binary opposites but as a complementary pair. For Marxism, the fusion is accomplished by Hegelian dialectics and the idea of quantity to quality leaps. After Althusser, epistemological breaks in science provide the model for thinking revolutions as discontinuous with the status quo. Through critical readings of Hegel, Marx and Lenin, the first part of the book interrogates the politics of Marxist philosophy. While defending Marx from charges of 'historicism', the inability of Hegel's ‘leaps’ to think epistemological breaks is shown to support political gradualism and technological determinism. The book's second part, on Althusser, Badiou and Meillassoux, argues that although their philosophies think discontinuity more successfully, they tend towards a self-referential rationalism that shores up the authority of theorists. The final part of the book suggests that a way forward can be found in complexity theory and 'weak' notions of emergence.Less
This book challenges the use of the terms 'history' and 'event' to register the shift from historical necessity in Marxism to contingent events in contemporary philosophy. It argues both classical Marxism and a strand of French theory after Louis Althusser understand history and event not as binary opposites but as a complementary pair. For Marxism, the fusion is accomplished by Hegelian dialectics and the idea of quantity to quality leaps. After Althusser, epistemological breaks in science provide the model for thinking revolutions as discontinuous with the status quo. Through critical readings of Hegel, Marx and Lenin, the first part of the book interrogates the politics of Marxist philosophy. While defending Marx from charges of 'historicism', the inability of Hegel's ‘leaps’ to think epistemological breaks is shown to support political gradualism and technological determinism. The book's second part, on Althusser, Badiou and Meillassoux, argues that although their philosophies think discontinuity more successfully, they tend towards a self-referential rationalism that shores up the authority of theorists. The final part of the book suggests that a way forward can be found in complexity theory and 'weak' notions of emergence.
L. Welborn
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231171311
- eISBN:
- 9780231539159
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171311.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics. By reexamining Pauline eschatology, this text ...
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Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics. By reexamining Pauline eschatology, this text suggests that neighbor-love depends upon an orientation toward the messianic event, which Paul describes as the “now time” and which he imagines as “awakening.” The book compares the Pauline dialectic of awakening to attempts by Hellenistic philosophers to rouse their contemporaries from moral lethargy and to the Marxist idea of class consciousness, emphasizing the apostle's radical spirit and moral relevance.Less
Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics. By reexamining Pauline eschatology, this text suggests that neighbor-love depends upon an orientation toward the messianic event, which Paul describes as the “now time” and which he imagines as “awakening.” The book compares the Pauline dialectic of awakening to attempts by Hellenistic philosophers to rouse their contemporaries from moral lethargy and to the Marxist idea of class consciousness, emphasizing the apostle's radical spirit and moral relevance.
Vlad Strukov
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474407649
- eISBN:
- 9781474422024
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407649.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The study captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and provides a relevant interpretative framework—the so-called symbolic mode. The concept is introduced to account for a particular ...
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The study captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and provides a relevant interpretative framework—the so-called symbolic mode. The concept is introduced to account for a particular style of film presentation that has emerged in Russia since 2000. It is characterized by the use of the highly abstracted concepts and visual language. For example, on one level, Zviagintsev’s ‘The Return’ is a story of a father coming home after twelve years of absence and reuniting with his sons. On another, it is an eschatological exploration of the story of Christ, ancient myths and native folklore. The effect is achieved thanks to painterly allusions, composition, use of music, etc. Whilst such use of symbolization is common in word cinema, in Russian cinema it refers to a complex philosophical framework which includes such concepts as posthumous subjectivity, abandoned being, multiplicity, doubling, disintegration, etc. Thus the symbolic mode defines simultaneously a particular visual style, philosophical system and sensibility. The symbolic mode focuses on significative resemblances (appearing) that suggest a particular re-orientation of the consciousness (subjectivity) required to actualise the presence of appearing in the current world. The discussion revolves around films by established directors (Sokurov; Zviagintsev and Zel’dovich) and introduces lesser-known filmmakers (Balabanov; Fedorchenko; Kalatozishvili; Khomeriki; Litvinova; and so on). Whether directed towards a mystical world, or even towards an afterlife, the symbolic mode defines an emergence of a specific mindscape which escapes previous representational modus operandi.Less
The study captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and provides a relevant interpretative framework—the so-called symbolic mode. The concept is introduced to account for a particular style of film presentation that has emerged in Russia since 2000. It is characterized by the use of the highly abstracted concepts and visual language. For example, on one level, Zviagintsev’s ‘The Return’ is a story of a father coming home after twelve years of absence and reuniting with his sons. On another, it is an eschatological exploration of the story of Christ, ancient myths and native folklore. The effect is achieved thanks to painterly allusions, composition, use of music, etc. Whilst such use of symbolization is common in word cinema, in Russian cinema it refers to a complex philosophical framework which includes such concepts as posthumous subjectivity, abandoned being, multiplicity, doubling, disintegration, etc. Thus the symbolic mode defines simultaneously a particular visual style, philosophical system and sensibility. The symbolic mode focuses on significative resemblances (appearing) that suggest a particular re-orientation of the consciousness (subjectivity) required to actualise the presence of appearing in the current world. The discussion revolves around films by established directors (Sokurov; Zviagintsev and Zel’dovich) and introduces lesser-known filmmakers (Balabanov; Fedorchenko; Kalatozishvili; Khomeriki; Litvinova; and so on). Whether directed towards a mystical world, or even towards an afterlife, the symbolic mode defines an emergence of a specific mindscape which escapes previous representational modus operandi.
John Ó Maoilearca
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816697342
- eISBN:
- 9781452952291
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816697342.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter explains why Laruelle thinks that philosophy is the very form of domination in thought by showing how a range of philosophers, from Locke and Kant through to Derrida, Deleuze, Badiou and ...
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This chapter explains why Laruelle thinks that philosophy is the very form of domination in thought by showing how a range of philosophers, from Locke and Kant through to Derrida, Deleuze, Badiou and the “new realists”, each replicate – in different ways – a structure of power that victimizes individuals who do not fulfill their definitions of objective, detached, human thinking.Less
This chapter explains why Laruelle thinks that philosophy is the very form of domination in thought by showing how a range of philosophers, from Locke and Kant through to Derrida, Deleuze, Badiou and the “new realists”, each replicate – in different ways – a structure of power that victimizes individuals who do not fulfill their definitions of objective, detached, human thinking.
Aloni Udi
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231157599
- eISBN:
- 9780231527378
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231157599.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
In this chapter, the author reflects on the time he spent with Alain Badiou in Haifa. Badiou came to Haifa with his son Oliver, whom he adopted with his ex-wife Cecile. When they arrived in Haifa, ...
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In this chapter, the author reflects on the time he spent with Alain Badiou in Haifa. Badiou came to Haifa with his son Oliver, whom he adopted with his ex-wife Cecile. When they arrived in Haifa, Oliver, an eighteen-year-old African French-speaking young man, asked to see the house his mother had visited every summer when she was a girl. He wept upon learning that his mother's grandfather had died. The author, an Israeli among Jewish refugees, gazed at Badiou looking at his mourning son. In the rest of this chapter, he describes the chaotic situation in Tel Aviv amidst the war between Israel and Palestine.Less
In this chapter, the author reflects on the time he spent with Alain Badiou in Haifa. Badiou came to Haifa with his son Oliver, whom he adopted with his ex-wife Cecile. When they arrived in Haifa, Oliver, an eighteen-year-old African French-speaking young man, asked to see the house his mother had visited every summer when she was a girl. He wept upon learning that his mother's grandfather had died. The author, an Israeli among Jewish refugees, gazed at Badiou looking at his mourning son. In the rest of this chapter, he describes the chaotic situation in Tel Aviv amidst the war between Israel and Palestine.
Jean-Jacques Lecercle
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638000
- eISBN:
- 9780748652648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638000.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter examines the exchange of insults between Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze during 1976, when the former was still a young lecturer at the philosophy department of the University of ...
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This chapter examines the exchange of insults between Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze during 1976, when the former was still a young lecturer at the philosophy department of the University of Vincennes in Paris and the latter was already a full professor. Badiou called Deleuze a fascist, and in return Deleuze called him a bolshevik. The chapter explains that Badiou's insult was provoked by the success of Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus and the recent publication of Rhizome, which was later included as the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus. It also analyses Badiou and Deleuze's conception of the term disjunctive synthesis.Less
This chapter examines the exchange of insults between Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze during 1976, when the former was still a young lecturer at the philosophy department of the University of Vincennes in Paris and the latter was already a full professor. Badiou called Deleuze a fascist, and in return Deleuze called him a bolshevik. The chapter explains that Badiou's insult was provoked by the success of Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus and the recent publication of Rhizome, which was later included as the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus. It also analyses Badiou and Deleuze's conception of the term disjunctive synthesis.
Oz Lorentzen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823238958
- eISBN:
- 9780823238996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823238958.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Drawing from Alain Badiou and Thomas Berry, this chapter critiques the materialistic worldview of the West, and its attendant concept of energy and dependency upon “cheap” energy. An alternative ...
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Drawing from Alain Badiou and Thomas Berry, this chapter critiques the materialistic worldview of the West, and its attendant concept of energy and dependency upon “cheap” energy. An alternative approach is offered through a “personalist” approach to reality and energy. Personalism is based on theological reflections of the incarnational nature of God and the Sabbath, and leads to a new set of values for culture and energy, which can be summarized as a priority of being over doing. From these values, with St. Paul's “rule-less rule” as a guide, a formal contour is given for the development of energy in a personalist model.Less
Drawing from Alain Badiou and Thomas Berry, this chapter critiques the materialistic worldview of the West, and its attendant concept of energy and dependency upon “cheap” energy. An alternative approach is offered through a “personalist” approach to reality and energy. Personalism is based on theological reflections of the incarnational nature of God and the Sabbath, and leads to a new set of values for culture and energy, which can be summarized as a priority of being over doing. From these values, with St. Paul's “rule-less rule” as a guide, a formal contour is given for the development of energy in a personalist model.
