Discerning Fidelity: Badiou Between Faith and Reason
DOI/jx Discerning Fidelity: Badiou between Faith and Reason Geoffrey Holsclaw Abstract At this juncture in history, viewed as either the dusk of modernity or the dawn of its overcoming, questions of faith and reason are continually cast up anew. The questioning of faith and reason raise familiar binaries and oppositions: Is faith for or against, internal or external, before or after, above or below reason? Does faith perfect or overcome, complete or destroy, add or subtract from reason? This essay will pass through two figures representative of the contested field of Thomistic scholarship en route to a discussion of how the French philosopher Alain Badiou might intervene within the contemporary discussions of faith and reason. It will first engage Denys Turner’s recent work which could be characterized as a dogmatic faith in reason attempting to repel the dispositional faith which he attributes to Fergus Kerr. These competing conceptions of faith will set the backdrop for a presentation and application of Badiou’s understanding of faith as discerning fidelity. Keywords Faith, Reason, Alain Badiou, Philosophy, Fidelity At this
On Alain Badiou's 'critique of religion'
International Journal of Philosophy and Theology ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: On Alain Badiou’s ‘critique of religion’ Mads Peter Karlsen To cite this article: Mads Peter Karlsen (): On Alain Badiou’s ‘critique of religion’, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, DOI: / To link to this article: Published online: 28 Aug Submit your article to this journal Article views: 14 View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at ?journalCode=rjpt20 Download by: [Copenhagen Business School] Date: 07 September , At: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY, ARTICLE On Alain Badiou’s ‘critique of religion’ Mads Peter Karlsen Downloaded by [Copenhagen Business School] at 07 September Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY This paper examines Alain Badiou’s critical engagement with religion. It is argued that there are two central points at which religion enters the scene of Badiou’s philosophy. First, in his critique, the ‘motif of finitude’ Badiou repeatedly refers t
&#;In terms of recent theory, &#; the insistence on the superiority of Christianity (a very Hegelian claim) is peculiar to Badiou and Slavoj Žižek. Such a position clearly flies in the face of liberal pluralism; either you accept the truth that can be extracted from the Christian legacy, or you are wrong&#;. The doyens of difference start to hear alarm bells at this point. In my view Badiou&#;s defense of this argument is unassailable: what is at stake in reclaiming the truth of the Christian legacy is the very status of the universal itself; it is not a question of asserting the superiority of a closed coterie of true believers, for the Christian claim is precisely what challenges the closed community.&#;
&#;Liam A. O&#;Donnell, &#;St. Paul: Apostle, Militant, Communist,&#; Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy (), p.
&#;The fundamental question is that of knowing precisely what it means for there to be a single God&#;. Here Paul confronts &#; but also renews the terms of &#; the formidable question of the One. His genuinely revolutionary conviction is that the sign of the One is the &#;for all&#;, or the &#;without exception&#;. That there is b
Exploring Badiou's approach to Religion
Exploring Badiou’s approach to Religion Duncan Sant Paper presented at the ‘Engaging the Contemporary The Philosophical Turn towards Religion’ 8th November , Valletta, Malta. Abstract: Alain Badiou is one of the leading contemporary thinkers whose ideas have influenced to varying degrees many theological discourses. This paper aims to identify Alain Badiou’s critical approach to Religion even though he himself never intended to create an ordered explanation of religion itself. He does however provide a vague definition as ‘everything that presupposes that there is a continuity between truths and the circulation of meaning.’ Following from the Nietzschean claim of the death of God, through which concept is implied ‘values’, ‘truth’ and even the ‘good’, he attempts to establish what is sometimes called Axiomatic Atheism. This latter concept is based on Badiou’s two main ideas: his mathematically-based ontology and the theory of the Event. The idea of an over-arching One is removed in his ontology and replaced by the multiple-without-One or a multiplicity. The One is simply a product of an operation or a process of ‘counting-as-one’ and
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