[lbo-talk] reading badiou -- worth it? (was: Review of Badiou's Number)

[Jeffrey Fisher]

in short, i'm with dwayne (caveat emptor: my heart belongs to derrida). but
i started into badiou with _infinite thought_, a collection of essays. i am
going to mention this in a reply to ravi in the other thread, but the intro
there was very helpful, as is much of peter hallward's work on badiou (i've
not read the books -- except the one on deleuze i am partway through -- but
the articles).
also, don't disagree with a lot of what eric says. i would say, having
not yet got through either EE or LM
(which happens to be sitting right next to me, right
now), that i find his understanding of truth, knowledge, situation, fidelity,
the relation of one to
multiple, and forcing relative to the infinite very appealing. i will say
something (although probably not much) about forcing and the infinite in the
other thread, but that is what really caught my eye, and it is probably why
i am sticking with him, at least for now.

on the
parliamentary and direct action, it's a little tricky. i think i
linked hallward's analysis of the OP
as part of badiou's overall philosophy? he addresses this issue, er,
directly.

j

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Matthias Wasser
<matthias.wasser at gmail.com>wrote:


> I must confess that my forays into Badiou (beyond a few concrete essays
> like
> "the uses of the word 'Jew'") left me totally incomprehending. If one wants
> to eventually get a grasp on the more difficult Verso-y writers (ie beyond
> reading Zizek for the dirty jokes), is there a particular curriculum (read
> this, then read this, then read this; then watch these lectures on YouTube)
> or way of approaching the text that one should take?
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