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Title
Dilemmas of truth in Alain Gadiou's philosophy / Giosuè Ghisalberti.
ISBN
9783031182969 electronic book
3031182960 electronic book
9783031182952
3031182952
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-18296-9 doi
Call Number
B804 .G55 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
194
Summary
This book on Alain Badious philosophy begins with a central theme: the attempt to trace how Badiou has replaced the tradition of critical theory and negation with an affirmative support of his four generic procedures (art, science, love, and art) as inseparable from his revitalization of both the subject and the concept of truth. By defining four procedures as conditions of philosophy, Badiou makes the attempt to establish each as inter-related and systematically necessary to make a new proposal for thought. The fidelity to Badious project for the 21st century, however, requires a fundamental examination: are his four truths complicated by an inescapable dilemma? And if so, can the four truths be retained, as a whole, or does the individual reader have to make a decision that will alter Badious project and conclusions? By presenting the dilemmas of his thought, the scholarly reader will be in a position to then pursue the necessary study to come to their own conclusions and, by doing so, become sufficiently free to resist the many coercions of social and political life in liberal democracies today. Giosue Ghisalberti is Professor of Philosophy at Humber College, Toronto, Canada. His interests in the last decade have focused on the classical world of Judaism, Greece, Rome, and Christianity. Future work will complement the ancients with attention to modern thinkers. His most recent publication is Nietzsche and the Self-Revelations of a Martyr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Alain Badiou's Affirmations
Chapter 2: Art; 1 The Artist as a "Vanishing Cause"; 2 The Amorous Encounter of the Aesthetic; 3 The Betrayal of Heteronomy; 4 Artists as Great Affirmationists
Chapter 3: Science; 1 Is the Matheme Scientific?; 2 Ancient Science and Psychotherapy; 3 Sovereignty of the Concept; 4 Biology or the True Life
Chapter 4: Love; 1 Love and the Confrontation with Enemies; 2 A Solitary Event of Two; 3 Deadly Jealousy; 4 The Reinvention of Love?
Chapter 5: Politics; 1 Enemies and Their "Destruction"; 2 The Communist Hypothesis; 3 The One and the Many of Politics; 4 Politics or the Truth of Independence
Chapter 6: Conclusion: A Future and Happy Immanence
