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- Title: Towards an Anthropology of Infinitude: Badiou and the Political Subject (Alain Badiou)
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 267 KB
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ABSTRACT: In the English-language reception of Alain Badiou's work, he has often been one-sidedly positioned as a direct heir to the antihumanist projects of Lacan, Althusser and Foucault. Whilst there is much to this claim, this paper argues that the retention of a notion of the 'political subject' in Badiou's work necessarily also depends upon a commitment to a much-underexamined notion of a minimal philosophical anthropology that puts Badiou in a tradition with thinkers such as Ludwig Feuerbach. It is further argued that Badiou's minimal philosophical anthropology is opposed in essence to apparently similar phenomenological projects because it aligns humanity with infinity and not finitude. KEYWORDS: Badiou; Feuerbach; Philosophical Anthropology; The Subject; Humanism; Antihumanism