Lessons in political courage from plato and corneille, and a call to reassert the manifestos founding wager. Bartlett has crafted an elegant and subtle analysis of the meaning of socrates and plato or platocrates as he calls the subject of the dialogues by drawing on the philosophical program of alain badiou. Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth. An interrogation of plato s entire work using the concepts and categories of alain badiou. Platos republic, by alain badiou plato platonism scribd. It is generally recognized that, in the republic, plato faces a difficulty in. This effort leads him, in being and event, to combine rigorous mathematical formulae. The right of alain badiou and nicolas truong to be identified as the. Alain badiou is making a movie about plato with brad pitt. Hence, after decades of decolonial critique against the productive and exclusive power of the eurocentric gaze, the romantic portrayal of the primitive people, later called savages too, in badiou s republic, passes unchallenged, just to mention one of several examples in that text.
The pdf you are reading is an electronic version of a physical book that can be. Given that badiou 2012b has recently released a hypertranslation of plato s republic, in which he deliberately transforms elements of the original, the rigours of the form cannot be very far from his mind. Plenty of books have been written about plato s republic. The republic may also have been explored in relation to ethics and political philosophy. This paper conducts a textual analysis of badiou s references to mao and maoist.
Badiou emphasizes instead cinemas capacity to combine a sense of both. Alain badiou is a french philosopher, formerly chair of philosophy at the ecole normale. In what alain badiou calls his hypertranslation of plato s republic, we are taken into the world of plato s classic dialogue on politics and justice, sped up to the pace of a 21 st century new york street corner. His columbia university press books include plato s republic. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has retranslated the. Alain badiou despite all that is devaluing the wor democracyd day after day and in front of our eyes, there is n alain badiou. Pdf this essay considers the ambiguous sense in which badiou is a platonist. Alain badiou, the communist hypothesis, nlr 49, january.
I challenge this version of plato the antidemocrat by considering his aesthetics and politics in light of the representation of nonhuman animals in the republic and. A dialogue in 16 chapters 2012, badiou contemporizes plato s republic, and reinvents socrates into a maoist philosopher who constantly quotes mao. Peri politeias is plato s bestknown work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. That being said, i am not attempting, strictly speaking, to look at badiou s interpretation of plato. What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference. A dialogue in 16 chapters by alain badiou translated by susan spitzer, introduction by kenneth reinhard new york.
This article originally appeared in berfrois plato s republic. This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from badiou s claim that his work is a platonism of the multiple and that philosophy today requires a. Mao in alain badiou s plato s republic, comparative literature studies on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Translated by susan spitzer, columbia university press, 400 pp. Alain badiou s interpretation, or what the author calls his hypertranslation of plato s republic, takes the reader into plato s commentary on politics and justice and brought up to modern day. In what some observers may consider an anathema, badiou translates the text into everyday language. Plato s republic is one of the most wellknown and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed. This is the second instalment in a threepart essay on the millenarian platonism of the french philosopher alain badiou. Translated by susan spitzer and introduction by kenneth reinhard. Platos republic is one of the most wellknown and widely discus.
A dialogue in sixteen chapters badiou, alain, spitzer, susan, reinhard, kenneth on. Badiou does not merge ontology into the theory of the subject, rather, the. An introduction to alain badiou s philosophy alain badiou is one offrancesforemost living philosophers. However, as far as i can tell, there have only been a couple of efforts to rewrite it entirely. And he wants for its leading role none other than brad pitt, supported by sean connery as socrates and. In it, socrates along with various athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice. Plato s republic is one of the bestknown and most widelydiscussed texts in the history of philosophy. Alain badiou breathes life into plato s landmark text and revives its universality. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition. Alain badiou refers to his translation of plato s republic as a hypertranslation.
Feb 18, 20 alain badiou, author of, among many other works, the incident at antioch and plato s republic, both now. One of the great strengths of badious philosophy is his complete lack of. Alain badiou is making a movie about plato with brad pitt and sean connery. Kenneth reinhard is professor of comparative literature and.
Badiou, mathematics and model theory with his mathematically based theory of subjectivity, ontology, phenomenology and the advent of the new, alain badiou has produced a systematic reflection on forms and formalisms that is dramatic in its. Yet recognition ofthe force and originality ofhis work in the englishspeaking world has been slow to come, perhaps because it is difficult to assimilate his work within the established categories ofcontemporaryfrench philosophy. Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Plato srepublic a dialogue in sixteen chapters, with a prologue and an epilogue alain badiou translated by susan spitzer polity. This textbook platonism, as badiou sees it, simply gets platos.
X of the republic but it is a matter of philosophys existence, and not solely its. Alain badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into plato s text and restore its universality. Today, by way of contrast, alain badiou proposes to reiterate the philosophical gesture par excellence. In what alain badiou calls his hypertranslation of plato s republic, we are taken into the world of plato s classic dialogue on politics and justice, sped up to the pace of a 21 st century new york. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has. This document was created with prince, a great way of. Plato s republic is one of the most wellknown and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed alain badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into plato s text and restore its universality.
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