Alain Badiou è un filosofo, commediografo e scrittore francese.
Ha a lungo insegnato all'università di Paris VIII Saint-Denis Vincennes, ed è attualmente professore all'École normale supérieure di Parigi.
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“Male è il momento in cui mi manca la forza di essere vero verso ciò che mi costringe al Bene.”
dall'intervista di Christoph Cox, Molly Whalen On Evil: An Interview with Alain Badiou, Cabinet, n. 5, Winter 2001-2002; citato in Claudia Pozzana, postfazione a L'etica
Introduction
Being and Event (1988)
“Ethics defines man as a victim.”
Origine: Ethics, Chapter One, Section III: "Man Living animal or immortal singularity?"
Contesto: The heart of the question concerns the presumption of a univerasl human Subject, capable of reducing ethical issues to matters of human rights and humanitarian actions. We have seen that ethics subordniates the identification fo this subject to the universal recognition of the evil that is done to him. Ethics defines man as a victim. It will be objected: 'No! You are forgetting the active subject, the one that intervenes against barbarism!'So let us be precise: man is the being who is capable of recognzing himself as a victim.
“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
Origine: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Origine: Ethics, Chapter One, "Does Man Exist?"
Origine: Ethics, Chapter One, "Does Man Exist?"
“Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).”
Original French: La vérité est un mot neuf en Europe (et ailleurs).
From L'être et l'événement. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1988. .
The quote is a variation on Louis de Saint-Just, "Happiness is a new idea in Europe".
From Philosophy and the 'war against terrorism in Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy. London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0826467245.
Original French: Il est donc tout simplement faux que ce dont on ne peut parler (au sens ou il n'y a rien à en dire qui le spécifie, qui lui accorde des propriétés séparatrices), il faille le taire. Il faut au contraire le nommer...
From Manifesto for Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. ISBN 0791442209.
The quote is a commentary on Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent".
“The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.”
From Considérations sur l'état actuel du cinéma (1999), translated as Philosophy and Cinema in Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy. London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0826467245.
Meditation One: The One and the Multiple: a priori conditions of any possible ontology
Being and Event (1988)
From Vérité: forçage et innomable, translated as Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable in Theoretical Writings. London: Continuum, 2004. ISBN 0826461468.
From Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou by Bruno Bosteels, in Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions, edited by Gabriel Riera. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. ISBN 0791465047.
Meditation One: The One and the Multiple: a priori conditions of any possible ontology
Being and Event (1988)
Introduction
Being and Event (1988)
Meditation One: The One and the Multiple: a priori conditions of any possible ontology
Being and Event (1988)
Introduction
Being and Event (1988)
Introduction
Being and Event (1988)
From Philosophy and the 'war against terrorism in Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy. London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0826467245.
Introduction
Being and Event (1988)
“Without mathematics, we are blind.”
Original French: Hors les mathématiques, nous sommes aveugles.
From Court traité d'ontologie transitoire. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998. ISBN 2020348853.
“Art attests to what is inhuman in man.”
Original French: L'art atteste ce qu'il y a d'inhumain dans l'humain.
From Le siècle. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2005. ISBN 2020579308.
Introduction
Being and Event (1988)
From Plato, Our Dear Plato!, Magazine littéraire, no. 447 (November 2005).
Introduction
Being and Event (1988)
It will be objected: 'No! You are forgetting the active subject, the one that intervenes against barbarism!'So let us be precise: man is the being who is capable of recognzing himself as a victim.
Origine: Ethics, Chapter One, Section III: "Man Living animal or immortal singularity?"
