Alain Bidiou
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Tympan: I read him once in a while, Zizek too. His essays on aesthetic
(dancing) I found interesting same with his idea of objectless subjectivity
which seems contemplative to me. Zizek’s says that Badiou doesn’t accept
Lacan’s notion of the death drive and works with a neokantian infinite. They
both then have a different understanding of Christ as a Truth-Event and what
constitutes fidelity to this event.
Badiou uses a lot of set theory in his work. Some of it harks back to the
set
theory behind Rusell’s early work, Gödel’s work on axioms, and other 20th
century mathematicians. I studied set theory in math, and again later in
relational database theory. I read some of Badiou’s stuff on ontology and
set
theory, and didn’t find it satisfying at all. I read some of his writings
that
worked through a lot of set theory, but in the end, don’t gain any new
understanding of the aspects of philosphy that interest me. I find myself
agreeing with Zizek when he says that Badiou fails to “grasp the fundamental
authentically philosophical insight.”
— Ed Wall wrote:
>Has anybody on the list read things by Alain Bidiou? He seems to be doing
>mathematics and ontology. The mathematics seems a little weird (at least,
>what I’ve read), but I’m more interested if he says something useful. He is
>well known for something called Being and Event.
>
>Ed Wall
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