Cutting through simultaneously the conventions of sinology and a capitalist universalism modeled on the West, Jullien unfolds a difference between Chinese thought and philosophy that allows it to be ...thought out without taking sides. His unusual move insists on the irreducibility of the difference yet at the same time renders the irreducibility intelligible; Jullien gives us a world structured by distinct lines of thought.
Il est indubitable aujourd’hui que le mot « communisme » est un mot frappé par un verdict très majoritairement négatif, au point qu’il lui arrive d’être quasiment unanime. Il ne se rencontre plus, ce ...mot, que pour décrire les avatars de l’irrésistible déclin des partis communistes en Europe occidentale, singulièrement en Italie, en France, en Espagne ou au Portugal. Pour observer son quasi total rejet dans l’espace des conquêtes ou reconquêtes de la Russie soviétique à la fin de la dernière guerre mondiale : De la Pologne à l’Allemagne de l’Est ou de la Hongrie à la récente Ukraine, de la Bulgarie aux Etats baltes, on est en train de jeter aux oubliettes la séquence communiste des lendemains de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. En Russie, le mot « communisme » ne désigne pratiquement plus que des résidus étatiques ou patriotiques. Et en Chine même, où le mot « communiste » reste accolé au Parti unique dominant, il n’est plus guère utilisé. On dit « le Parti » un peu comme on dit « l’Etat ». Quand Xi Jinping déclare avec solennité que, je le cite, « le Parti décide de tout », il se dispense d’utiliser l’adjectif « communiste », et ce, bien que les dirigeants chinois n’aient jamais publiquement effacé cet adjectif.
Malebranche Badiou, Alain; Smith, Jason E; Spitzer, Susan ...
2019, 20190416
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Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of ...subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz. The seminar is at once a record of Badiou's thought at a key moment in the years before the publication of his most important work,Being and Event, and a lively interrogation of Malebranche's key text, theTreatise on Nature and Grace. Badiou develops a rigorous yet novel analysis of Malebranche's theory of grace, retracing his claims regarding the nature of creation and the relation between God and world and between God and Jesus. Through Malebranche, Badiou develops a radical concept of truth and the subject. This book renders a seemingly obscure post-Cartesian philosopher fascinating and alive, restoring him to the philosophical canon. It occupies a pivotal place in Badiou's reflections on the nature of being that demonstrates the crucial role of theology in his thinking.
Lacan Badiou, Alain; Reinhard, Kenneth; Spitzer, Susan L ...
2018, 20181016, 2019, 2018-10-16
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The transcript of Alain Badiou's year-long seminar on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, this book offers a forceful reading of an enigmatic yet foundational thinker and sheds light on the ...crucial role that Lacan plays in Badiou's own thought. It is the first volume of Badiou's seminars to be published in English.
« Les philosophes doivent être clairs et non pas profonds. Certains d’entre eux sont profonds par vocation, ils aiment cela, ils aiment avoir un jargon ténébreux. Cela, c’est la philosophie ...romantique. Ce n’est pas ma philosophie ». Alain Badiou repense le lien qui unit théâtre, politique et philosophie. Sa République de Platon offre au spectateur d’observer l’œuvre originale au travers du prisme contemporain, alimenté par les évolutions et révolutions politiques survenues au cours de l’histoire, plaçant ainsi la république au cœur du Festival d’Avignon.
The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow Badiou, Alain
Monthly review (New York. 1949),
05/2021, Letnik:
73, Številka:
1
Journal Article, Magazine Article
Recenzirano
Today the political visibility of the Paris Commune is not at all evident. At least, that is, if what we mean by "today" is the moment when we have to take up the challenge of thinking politics ...outside its subjection to the state and outside the framework of parties or party.… And yet the Commune was a political sequence that, precisely, did not situate itself in such a subjection or in such a framework. To tackle the political facts and determinations of the Commune…it is necessary to utilize a completely different method…than that of the classical interpretation.
What does a Jew Want? Udi Aloni, Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler
2011., 20111004, 2011, 2011-07-26, 20110101
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In the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler to confront the core issues of the ...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their bold question: Will a new generation of Israelis and Palestinians dare to walk together toward a joint Israel-Palestine? Through a collage of meditation, interview, diary, and essay, Aloni and his interlocutors present a personal, intellectual, and altogether provocative account rich with the insights of philosophy and critical theory. They ultimately foresee the emergence of a binational Israeli-Palestinian state, incorporating the work of Walter Benjamin, Edward Said, and Jewish theology to recast the conflict in secular theological terms.
The communist hypothesis Badiou, Alain
New Left review,
01/2008, Letnik:
49, Številka:
49
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The article addresses why the spectre of May 1968 still haunts French discourse. It outlines the country's "longue duree" sequences of restoration and revolt, and the place of Sarkozy within them, ...suggesting that what haunts his presidency is the "spectre of communism" in its 19C sense. It argues that a key analytical element in understanding the disorientation that goes by the name "Sarkozy" is the mass ideology of neo-Petainism offered by both parties: a disorientation solemnly enacted from the summit of the state and presented as a historical turning point. It urges the left to accept this challenge head-on as such 19C phenomena as extreme poverty and inequality, nihilism and servility, politics dissolved into the "service of wealth" reappear. The task is to renew the communist hypothesis in our consciousness and on the ground. (Quotes from original text)
