The Politics of Logic Livingston, Paul M.
2012, 20120322, 2011, 2011-08-15, 2012-03-22, Letnik:
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In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the ...results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their development and transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical structures forms the backbone of his comprehensive and provocative theory of ontology, politics, and the possibilities of radical change. Through interpretive readings of Badiou's work as well as the texts of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Livingston develops a formally based taxonomy of critical positions on the nature and structure of political communities. These readings, along with readings of Parmenides and Plato, show how the formal results can transfigure two interrelated and ancient problems of the One and the Many: the problem of the relationship of a Form or Idea to the many of its participants, and the problem of the relationship of a social whole to its many constituents.
We turn to experience when confronted by a problem, or so John Dewey's oeuvre suggests. Yet, what use is experience when the problem falls outside the boundaries of the known? Drawing upon a range of ...thinkers — from Alain Badiou to Elaine Scarry to Maggie Nelson — John Buethe takes Dewey's familiar thesis one step further to interrogate experience as preparation for radically unfamiliar circumstances, namely circumstances for which there is no experiential referent. He concludes that not only is an experiential education superior in its ability to bridge learners into the world as it is, it also possibly orients the subject to the good during times of uncertainty. Considering present volatilities within the state and society, the environment, and public health, educators may benefit by viewing experience under this light.
This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. Alex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship ...- namely, 'can cinema be thought?' - using films ranging from Hiroshima mon amour to Vertigo to The Matrix to illustrate Badiou's philosophy.
The Incident at Antiochis a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and ...extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, the work features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to reconcile the nature and practice of politics.
This bilingual edition presentsL'Incident d'Antiochein its original French and, on facing pages, an expertly executed English translation. Badiou adds a special preface, and an introduction by the scholar Kenneth Reinhard connects the play to Paul Claudel'sThe City, Saint Paul and the early history of the Church, and the innovative mathematical thinking of Paul Cohen. The translation includes Susan Spitzer's extensive notes clarifying allusions and quotations and hinting at Badiou's intentions. An interview with Badiou encompasses the play's settings, themes, and events, as well as his ongoing literary and conceptual experimentation on stage and off.
In this article we develop the idea that there exists a unique educational love and that it moreover can be identified as essential to education. First, developing Arendt's claim that education is ...about the existing generation introducing newcomers to the world, we argue that the object‐side of educational love is not the student, but first and foremost the thing that is studied in the classroom. Educational love is love for the world, not for a person. It expresses itself in the act of affirming that a particular thing is interesting: a part of the world that is worth the effort of being studied together with the new generation. Second, we follow Badiou's account of love as the labour of fidelity to the event, in order to render teaching in terms of staying faithful to one's falling in love with a particular subject matter. Teaching is therefore a continuous attempt at making this event of falling in love present in the classroom. Thus, love for the thing materialises itself in an effort to make the thing endure and to show to the next generation that it is worth of care and attention. Finally, indicating the erotic and agapeic dimension of educational love we turn to Scheler and his position on love and hate as two distinct ways of relating with the world, which respectively come down to an opening and a narrowing‐down mode of world‐disclosure.
Even though Quentin Meillassoux's philosophy is still in the making, to use Graham Harman's (2015) expression, it has garnered sufficient attention to become the topic of an evergrowing body of ...specialized literature. Here we wish to make a contribution in that direction. We offer an examination of Meillassoux's definition of philosophy as "the invention of strange forms of argumentation". We compare and contrast this definition to the one that has been offered by Deleuze & Guattari in What is Philosophy? Our examination of Meillassoux's core metaphilosophical ideas will follow the same methodological procedure that he himself outlined in his fictionalization of Deleuze as a pre-Socratic. We contend that his novel interpretative technique, which relies heavily on fictionalization, should be repeatable by other authors. To this end, we evaluate his potential to become a philosophical heir to Alain Badiou. We explain why this may be the case, by positing a fictional situation that we will name "the Continental Expectation", and then we will link that situation to the contents of Meillassoux's philosophy, specifically to his concept of absolute contingency. KEYWORDS: Speculative Realism; Quentin Meillassoux; Metaphilosophy
Adrian Johnston's Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism,planned for three volumes, will lay the foundations for a new materialist theoretical apparatus, his "transcendental materialism." In this ...first volume, Johnston clears an opening within contemporary philosophy and theory for his unique position. He engages closely with Lacan, Badiou, and Meillassoux, demonstrating how each of these philosophers can be seen as failing to forge an authentically atheistic materialism. Johnston builds a new materialism both profoundly influenced by these brilliant comrades of a shared cause as well as making up for the shortcomings of their own creative attempts to bring to realization the Lacanian vision of an Other-less, One-less ontology. The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy yields intellectual weapons suitable for deployment on multiple fronts simultaneously, effective against the mutually entangled spiritualist and scientistic foes of our post-Enlightenment, biopolitical era of nothing more than commodities and currencies.
I here explore the educational potential of cinema and TV-series through the eyes of the French philosopher Alain Badiou. To illustrate, I read the Norwegian web-based TV-series
Skam
(shame), which ...reached out to millions of Nordic teens by a broad distribution, easy access and speaking a language young people could relate to. The series portrays the many faces and ambiguities of shame and shaming embedded in Nordic youth culture. In bringing the question of the pedagogy of cinema and TV-series to the forefront, I here read
Skam
on three analytical levels. First, to explore the TV-series capability to captivate the viewers through a doubling of the real. Second, to examine Badiou’s idea of cinema as an ontological art, revolving around the question of the relationship between being and appearing. Third, I read
Skam
analytically, to consider Badiou’s claim that cinema is a democratic emblem. In sum, what may be the series’ potential for shaping the viewers’ ethical–political awareness?
The forces of globalization have transformed literary studies in
America, and not for the better. The detailed critical reading of
artistic texts has been replaced by newly minted catchphrases
...describing widely divergent snippets and anecdotes-deemed mere
documents-regardless of the critic's expertise in the appropriate
languages and cultures. Visions of Global America and the Future of
Critical Reading by Daniel T. O'Hara traces the origin of this
global approach to Emerson. But it also demonstrates another,
tragic tradition of vision from Henry James that counters the
Emersonian global imagination with the hard realities of being
human. Building on this tradition, on Lacan's insights into the
Real, and on Badiou's original theory of truth, O'Hara points to
how we can, and should, reground literary study in critical
reading. In Emerson's classic essay "Experience" (1844), America
appears in and as a symptom of the critic's self-making that
sacrifices the power of love to this visionary project-a literary
version of the American self-made man. O'Hara rescues critical
reading using James's late work, especially The Golden
Bowl (1904), and builds on this vision with examinations of
texts by St. Paul, Emerson, Wallace Stevens, James Purdy, John
Cheever, James Baldwin, John Ashbery, and others.
El objetivo del siguiente trabajo es proponer una lectura metacrítica, es decir, crítica de la crítica, del pensamiento sobre el arte y la literatura del francés Jacques Rancière. La hipótesis de un ...texto paradigmático será imbricada y reproblematizada bajo unidades crecientemente mayores (libro, sistema de conceptos, diálogos con otros sistemas). Precisamente, a partir de las aristas que revelan la polémica de Rancière con Jean-François Lyotard y Alain Badiou, se procederá a una evaluación general de los límites y las potencias de la teoría de los regímenes del arte.
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