Behind this case lies Zizek's indebtedness to the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou, to whom this book devotes some critically sympathetic pages. For Badiou, the good life, ethically and politically speaking, consists in a tenacious adherence to some "Event" which bursts unpredictably on the historical scene, transforms the very coordinates of human reality and refashions from top to toe the men and women who remain loyal to it. One of the atheistic Badiou's examples of such an event is the life and death of Christ.
LOL. While Carrol wouldn't put it in those terms, it is fascinating that one of the most widely referenced French philosophers these days, Badiou, seems to share the same world as our own Carrol Cox! (Of course, I typically don't like to rely on secondary sources but I simply haven't had time to read Badiou. May have to revise my impression upon a read.)
Or maybe Zizek lurks and has been Carrol's student all this time. ;o
At 12:29 PM 4/23/2008, John E. Norem wrote:
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