Towards an Anthropology of Infinitude: Badiou and the Political Subject

Authors

  • Nina Power Roehampton University, London

Keywords:

Badiou, Feuerbach, Philosophical Anthropology, The Subject, Humanism, Antihumanism

Abstract

In the English-language reception of Alain Badiou#39;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 #39;political subject#39; in Badiou#39;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#39;s minimal philosophical anthropology is opposed in essence to apparently similar phenomenological projects because it aligns humanity with infinity and not finitude.nbsp;

Author Biography

Nina Power, Roehampton University, London

Lecturer in PhilosophyRoehampton University, Surrey, London

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Published

27-10-2006

How to Cite

Power, N. (2006). Towards an Anthropology of Infinitude: Badiou and the Political Subject. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2(1-2), 186–209. Retrieved from http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/34