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Badiou: A Subject To Truth by Peter Hallward

Badiou: A Subject To Truth Peter Hallward ebook
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Page: 512
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0816634606, 9780816634606

Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, p. Badiou: A Subject To Truth Peter Hallward Language: English Page: 512. As Hallward points out, Badiou follows Lacan in believing that the “real” can only be accessed through singular encounters or events, and that “a truth persists … solely through the militant proclamation of those people who maintain a fidelity to .. Download Badiou: A Subject To Truth. The subject, therefore, in no way pre-exists the process. I am delighted to stumble across a theoretical underpinning for this thesis from Slavoj Žižek in his forward to Peter Hallward's Badiou: a subject to truth. Badiou quoted in Slavoj Zizek, In Defence of Lost Causes, London: Verso, 2008, p. So Badiou writes, “I call 'subject' the bearer [le support] of a fidelity, the one who bears a process of truth. In his book The Century, Badiou is in fact very critical of how dangerous this can be (he calls it a 'passion for real'). Badiou: A Subject To Truth by Peter Hallward. And this, of course – since the event was excluded by all the regular laws of the situation – compels the subject to invent a new way of being and acting in the situation.” Badiou, Ethics, p. Quoted in Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 30, 36. He is absolutely nonexistent in the situation before the event.