Frases de Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou es un filósofo, dramaturgo y novelista francés.

✵ 17. enero 1937
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“Ethics defines man as a victim.”

Alain Badiou

Fuente: Ethics, Chapter One, Section III: "Man Living animal or immortal singularity?"
Contexto: The heart of the question concerns the presumption of a univerasl human Subject, capable of reducing ethical issues to matters of human rights and humanitarian actions. We have seen that ethics subordniates the identification fo this subject to the universal recognition of the evil that is done to him. Ethics defines man as a victim. It will be objected: 'No! You are forgetting the active subject, the one that intervenes against barbarism!'So let us be precise: man is the being who is capable of recognzing himself as a victim.

“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”

Alain Badiou

Fuente: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

“Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).”

Alain Badiou

Original French: La vérité est un mot neuf en Europe (et ailleurs).
From L'être et l'événement. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1988. .
The quote is a variation on Louis de Saint-Just, "Happiness is a new idea in Europe".

“It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.”

Alain Badiou

Original French: Il est donc tout simplement faux que ce dont on ne peut parler (au sens ou il n'y a rien à en dire qui le spécifie, qui lui accorde des propriétés séparatrices), il faille le taire. Il faut au contraire le nommer...
From Manifesto for Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. ISBN 0791442209.
The quote is a commentary on Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent".

“The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.”

Alain Badiou

From Considérations sur l'état actuel du cinéma (1999), translated as Philosophy and Cinema in Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy. London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0826467245.

“In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers.”

Alain Badiou

From Vérité: forçage et innomable, translated as Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable in Theoretical Writings. London: Continuum, 2004. ISBN 0826461468.

“Everything turns on mastering the gap between the presupposition (that must be rejected) of a being of the one and the thesis of its 'there is.”

Alain Badiou

Meditation One: The One and the Multiple: a priori conditions of any possible ontology
Being and Event (1988)

“Without mathematics, we are blind.”

Alain Badiou

Original French: Hors les mathématiques, nous sommes aveugles.
From Court traité d'ontologie transitoire. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998. ISBN 2020348853.

“Art attests to what is inhuman in man.”

Alain Badiou

Original French: L'art atteste ce qu'il y a d'inhumain dans l'humain.
From Le siècle. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2005. ISBN 2020579308.

“The heart of the question concerns the presumption of a univerasl human Subject, capable of reducing ethical issues to matters of human rights and humanitarian actions. We have seen that ethics subordniates the identification fo this subject to the universal recognition of the evil that is done to him. Ethics defines man as a victim.”

Alain Badiou

It will be objected: 'No! You are forgetting the active subject, the one that intervenes against barbarism!'So let us be precise: man is the being who is capable of recognzing himself as a victim.
Fuente: Ethics, Chapter One, Section III: "Man Living animal or immortal singularity?"

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