On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
> 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.
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> j
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> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Matthias Wasser <
> matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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