TY - CHAP
T1 - Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality
T2 - Badiou and the Ignorant Schoolmaster
AU - Barbour, Charles Andrew
PY - 2010/8/24
Y1 - 2010/8/24
KW - Badiou affirming, 'axiom of equality' or notion - that all people are of equal intelligence
KW - Badiou's approach to 'axiom of equality' - assertion of universal truths, not simple denial of difference
KW - Badiou's reinvigoration of category of 'truth' - involving rigid commitment to philosophy
KW - Badiou's revival of militancy, its Pauline formulations - with clear limitations of its own
KW - Badiou's work, of serious challenge - to those who wish to ground ethics in an experience of trauma
KW - Badiou, and 'universal truths' - exceeding circulation of opinions within a given situation
KW - Badiou, attacking 'pluralism' and 'relativism' - of contemporary theory
KW - Badiou, every ethics worthy of the name - taking shape through a subject's fidelity to a good, and to a 'truth' that 'punches a "hole" in knowledges'
KW - Badiou, not a partisan of philosophy - or champion of contemplative life detached completely from realm of human affairs
KW - Militants of truth, communities of equality - Badiou and the ignorant schoolmaster
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886974098&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/9781444391527.ch7
DO - 10.1002/9781444391527.ch7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84886974098
SN - 9781444337426
SP - 99
EP - 110
BT - Thinking Education through Alain Badiou
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -