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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Badiou"”.
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TOWARDS A POINTAL ECCLESIOLOGY: ZIZEK AND BADIOU IN THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATION
This thesis presents a survey of Alain Badiou’s ontology and theory of the “event,” including his understanding of “faithful subject,” followed by an examination of Slavoj Zizek’s materialist theology, undertaken with a view to what they can say to inform the modem Western Church. Though the thrust …
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Processes of Social Change in the Works of Badiou and Laclau
… of social change found in the works of Alain Badiou and Ernesto Laclau succeed in fulfilling this task. Badiou contends that a political process transforms the situation in which it unfolds in so far as what it produces is a ‘truth’. Certain implications of the set-theoretical ontological …
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This infinite, unanimous dissonance : a study in mathematical existentialism through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Alain Badiou
… to the work both of Jean-Paul Sartre and Alain Badiou (with special attention being given to Being and Nothingness and Being and Event respectively): the thesis that the subject 's existence precedes and determines its essence. To this end, the author aims to explicate the structural …
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Ethics and The Other: An Interpretation of The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
… made by thinkers like Gillian Rose and Alain Badiou. This understanding of Levinas is founded on a misreading of his texts, and as such I present a new reading of Levinas work which provides a basis for political thinking. In doing so, I explore the role of the Other in Levinas’ philosophy, …
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Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Self: Living in the Truth
… frameworks developed by Paul Ricoeur and Alain Badiou. Seeking “nothing short of a full victory” on the “battlefield” of history, Badiou argues that Ricoeur deceives his readers by hiding the relationship of the self to history. The purpose of this deception is to defend a definition of history …
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Perdón por (no) querer decir: Derrida: responsabilidad, secreto y literatura
… un seminario sobre filosofía y literatura, Alain Badiou ha planteado que no se trata de una relación única, sino de diversos modos de vincularse. Él ha propuesto, por lo menos, tres orientaciones posibles frente a esta relación. La primera de ellas la nombra orientación estética, donde la …
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The Impasse of Liberal (In)Equality: Materialising Egalitarian Politics Through Collective Fidelity
… conducts, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou provide a way out of the impasse of liberal (in)equality. They do so by reconceptualising equality as a starting point rather than an objective of politics. Framed as such, egalitarian politics becomes a fully emancipatory project depending …
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Philip K. Dick and the Spectre of the Subject
… the work of the contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou. Drawing from three different phases of Dick’s career, I aim to demonstrate that his The Man in the High Castle (1962), Time Out of Joint (1959) and the later short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” can examine and comment upon the …
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Σύλληψη, ανάλυση και παραγωγή πρωτότυπης παράστασης: Another dance at the bus stop
… από στοχαστές όπως ο Michel Foucault, ο Alain Badiou, οι Gilles Deleuze και Félix Guattari, το Judith Butler, η Pina Bausch και ο Hans – Thies Lehmann, προκειμένου να αναλυθούν ζητήματα εξουσίας, φύλου, επανάληψης, σκηνογραφικής σύνθεσης και δραματικής χρονικότητας. Παράλληλα, τεκμηριώνεται …
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Violence Between Equals. An Investigation on the Ontological Concept of Change.
… 1978, Foucault 1968, Levinas 1994, Deleuze 1983, Badiou 2001, Lacan 1956-1959), I can establish a logical and formal relation between violence and power that is able to tackle any ethical debate surrounding both concepts. This approach elucidates the ethical problem, posing the political dimension …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… about racism in poetry and music. Alain Badiou, David Trippett and Alex Ross have lately renewed interest in historical Wagnerism. But much anglophone writing about Wagner has been dismissed simply because it is poorly understood. This dissertation’s first chapter is about early …
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Myndin yfirheyrir orðið. Godard og kvikmynd sem heimspekilegt rannsóknartæki
… nútími. Því er loks haldið fram að hugtök Alains Badiou um Sannleika, Atburð og hugveru grundvallist á skyldum skilningi, en afsöguvæði í reynd nútímann og leggi þannig til módernisma sem afstöðu sem hægt er að taka upp og grundvalla líf á. Frá sjónarhóli siðfræði liggur slíkur módernismi í grennd …
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Embracing the Wound of Contingency: Transcribing Reality in Supernatural Horror and Found Footage
… Framing the contingent rupture along Alain Badiou’s theory of the event, this paper argues Supernatural Horror media presents the possibility of an inhuman ethical attitude in the face of the contingent – an embrace of the insatiable wound of inductive skepticism (as outlined by David Hume) …
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The Afterlife of Painting
… of art, particularly the philosophies of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze (with Felix Guattari). Chapter three uses Peter Osborne’s six-point definition of the conditions of postconceptual art to argue for a form of post-conceptual painting. I contend that Osborne gives insufficient weight to the …
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Transmedia - a Place of Negotiation in Conditions of Hybridity and Change
… the concept of the model as understood by Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. The theoretical aim is to establish a multi-viewpoint theoretical approach based on the dynamic concept of the ‘Walker’ or ‘Flâneur’ replacing single viewpoint categorization, a concept also to be applied to the reading of …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… as Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, as their thought develops through their participation in a collaborative, periodical publication, and introduce lesser known thinkers who have not received an extended readership in Anglophone spheres. Lignes also argues for the continued …
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EMANCIPATING DESIRE, EMPOWERING FANTASY: CULTURAL POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA
… and drawing on Jacques Ranciere?s and Alain Badiou?s theories on the potentiality of cinema for progressive social change, I examine new film practices, genres, networks, industry structures and social struggles in Indonesia and Malaysia today which are aided by the advancement in new digital …
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American Multitudes: Immunity and Contagion at the Turn of the Century
… and beyond--that takes a gambit on what Badiou calls the "communist hypothesis." Perhaps most importantly, though, the texts of Norris and Anderson demonstrate, either deliberately or otherwise, that such a gambit must preclude any recourse to substantialist notions of innate …
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Between Before and After: Architecture in a Time of Crisis
… the political subject. The thesis applies Alain Badiou’s theory of event to the political context of the Greek crisis, utilising a projective method of history/theory that privileges the present in a hybrid construction of historical time. Badiou’s theory is then compared to Bernard Tschumi’s …
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The Emergence of the Documentary Real within Relational and Post-Relational Political Aesthetics
… why the philosophy of Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou respectively, are inadequate to the demands of current aesthetics. In fact they hinder its development. On this basis I turn to Rodolphe Gashé’s re-thinking of relation. His thinking grants relation a minimal ontology that in fact excludes it …
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