On Logic and the Theory of Ensembles
Formalism and Alain Badiou’s Experience of Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15030677 |
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| Authors | Alexander Diones (corresponding author), Alexander W Diones |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 950-972 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Event (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1092-311X • E-ISSN: 2572-6633 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tae.2017.0086 |
| OpenAlex | W2769880779 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Alain Badiou’s mathematical ontology is famously obscure and disavows any political stakes. This paper begins from the suspicion that for such an avowedly communist philosopher, the question of collectivity posed by set theory cannot be unrelated to the question of political collectives. I argue that Badiou’s turn to mathematics directly responds to what he diagnoses as two problems of representing political will: institutional dilution on the one hand and post-structural temporizing on the other. His formalism, by contrast, offers a language of political solidarity that in its immediacy refuses the interval between collective representation and collective action
Collective action · Epistemology · Formalism (music · Immediacy · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
Theory of the Subject
The Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis
Critique of Judgment
Phantom of consistency
A Democratic Theory of Judgment
May '68 and Its Afterlives
The Political Life of Sensation
Badiou's Being and event
Acting in an uncertain world
Form and Explanation
Badiou's Number
The Turn to Affect
| Highly cited | No |
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