Badiou

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Alain Badiou as a fellow student from the École normale and regards him as a "true philosopher" with whom one must engage, even though he is a Maoist1. He praises his Five Lessons on Wagner, which he considers the most intelligent book on Wagner. He links this achievement to the legacy of a bourgeois mother who took him to Bayreuth at fifteen23. He also takes up his reading of the end of Parsifal as a rescue through gentleness. On the theoretical level, he sums up Being and Event: a non-subject, caught in signifying chains, awaits the event. In his view, Badiou deems Marxism uninhabitable and keeps only fidelity to the event4. He criticizes him for reducing ontology to mathematics and for translating the Platonic agathon as the true rather than the good, which he calls a major misreading of Plato5. He notes several times that Badiou has never disowned the Maoism that supported the Khmer Rouge6.

1. 1D. Pagani / Réponse de M. Clouscard à C. Morilhat • Seconde Partie10 Sept 2019 · 1:58:12
2. 2La Musique de l'Histoire26 Apr 2015 · 1:41:59
3. 39 #13 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?29 Jan 2021 · 5:03
4. 4Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 16:43
5. 5Les fondements de la distinction platonicienne et aristotélicienne5 May 2026 · 48:43
6. 6#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 1:38:22

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