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- Title: By Transmission: How It All Comes Down to Nothing (Book Review)
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 204 KB
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BY TRANSMISSION: HOW IT ALL COMES DOWN TO NOTHING Gabriel Riera (ed.), Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its conditions, New York, Suny, 2005. ISBN: 0791465047 In 1964 Alain Badiou was present to hear a young Jacques-Alain miller ask Jacques Lacan the question: "What is your ontology?" Lacan, "our wily master," Badiou says, "responded with an allusion to non-being, which was well judged, but brief." It might be conjectured that it was the question rather than Lacan's answer that made the greatest impression on Badiou. And so, in his 1988 work, L'Etre et l'evenement, Badiou provides his ontology. In a sense each of Badiou's subsequent works, while comprehensible on their own terms, is also to some extent a 'manifesto' for and a praxical exposition of, that ontology. As many of the works in this collection concentrate their attention on the 'subsequent works' it is perhaps somewhat ironic, given the strong affiliation some of the contributors maintain to Lacanian readings of Badiou, that they fail to heed the importance of miller's intervention, and address themselves to the ontology.
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