Badiou and the philosophy of social work
A reply to Stephen Webb
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12608237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Imre (University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-258 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6866 • E-ISSN: 1468-2397 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2009.00708.x |
| OpenAlex | W1559876699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Imre R. Badiou and the philosophy of social work: a reply to Stephen Webb Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 253–258 © 2010 The Author, Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. Stephen Webb's recent article ‘Against diversity and difference in social work’ claims that the work of Alain Badiou has the potential to be of great use in social work practice. Webb is faced with the problem of a discourse that has eroded any practical meaning attached to notions of diversity and difference, he laments the ‘ethical turn’ in social work practice and blames post‐modernism. Webb views the work of Badiou as a way to reinvigorate social work practice. I claim that Badiou's Being and Event is exclusive to ontology. Connections between Being and Event and possible ‘uses’ of Badiou's subtractive ontology, as an instrumentalisation, are not worthwhile. Critiquing Badiou's non‐ontological philosophies and political polemics is a better way to assess the practicality of his thought outside of his ontology. Webb's conflation of post‐modernism, neoliberalism and the difference, diversity and ethics discourse is also problematic and is critiqued here
Aesthetics · Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Meaning (existential · Modernism (music · Ontology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Philosophy · Social Work Education and Practice
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Against difference and diversity in social work
Social work as art revisited
Is there nothing beyond postmodernism and ‘the theoretical Other’? The need for balancing universalism and diversity in social work
The return of the political in social work
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2015 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |