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Trying to write about ...

Posted by Edward Willatt on Monday, July 19, 2010, In : Deleuze and Badiou

I am trying to write about something that has preoccupied me for a number of years. This is the relation between Deleuze and Badiou. Their differences have been a major focus for recent debates over the future of philosophy. Their have been sustained and sometimes polemic treatments of Deleuze’s work which follow Badiou in alleging the neglect of the actual in favour of the virtual, the political and scientific in favour of the artistic, and the spatial in favour of the temporal. Resp...

'Fragile Verbal Footbridges' in Badiou's History of Philosophy

Posted by Edward Willatt on Monday, October 5, 2009, In : Deleuze and Badiou

At page 170 of Being and Event Badiou ends his reading of Hegel’s philosophy by locating a ‘fragile verbal footbridge’ at its heart. The unity of his system is said to depend upon a fragile construction which aims to span a gap that for Badiou must be treated very differently. I am interested in the history of philosophy which runs throughout Being and Event. The assessment of Hegel here (in Meditation 15) echoes his treatment of Spinoza (in Meditation 10) which I puzzled over in a p...