TY - JOUR AU - Power, Nina PY - 2006/10/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Towards an Anthropology of Infinitude: Badiou and the Political Subject JF - Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy JA - Cosmos and History VL - 2 IS - 1-2 SE - No. 2 DO - UR - http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/34 SP - 186-209 AB - 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; ER -