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- Title
HUMANISM AND ANTI-HUMANISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALAIN BADIOU.
- Authors
Spencer, Joseph M.
- Abstract
Alain Badiou, through a deliberately anti-humanist mathematical ontology, proposes a complex but philosophically compelling concept of personhood. Equating individual personhood with human animality, Badiou proposes a trans-personal theory of the subject, rooted in a robust account of truth and its relationship to novel events. This paper outlines Badiou's notion of personhood through a brief analysis of his philosophical beginnings, a summary of his mathematical ontology, and an engagement with his doctrine of subjectivity
- Publication
Appraisal, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
1358-3336
- Publication type
Academic Journal