One Badiou? Parodies of Philosophy

Experiencing Nothing: Anxiety and the Philosophy of Alain Badiou

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different meanings of subject in alain badiou's philosophy

the concept of subject is one of the most crucial concepts in alain badiou's philosophical thought. he uses this concept in connection with concepts such as event, truth and fidelity. in this paper we try to show that there is an obscurity or complication in badiou's use of this concept. there seems to be an inconsistency in his assertions about the nature of subject. some phrases asc...

Badiou qua Badiou, or vanity of void ontology

A nonsensical claim is hardly worth the trouble to contest as long as nobody except its author takes it seriously. In some circles, however, French philosopher Alain Badiou is heralded as a great thinker. Especially his emphasis on multiplicity should raise interest from the perspective of information management. So, can Badiou’s ideas be put to practical use, there? After admitting that his ...

Writing for Two: A Critique of Literature, Love, and the Event in the Philosophy of Alain Badiou

Badiou, Mathematics and Model Theory

reasoning and the institutional formalization of intersubjective life, but also, and perhaps even more profoundly, for the characteristic (“analytic” as well as “continental”) twentieth-century philosophical inquiry into linguistic meaning, including among others the questions of the nature of linguistic generality and the “logical” form of the sentence itself. 42 (In this connection, it is, of...