Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality: Badiou and the Ignorant Schoolmaster

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThinking Education through Alain Badiou
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages99-110
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9781444337426
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Aug 2010

Keywords

  • Badiou affirming, 'axiom of equality' or notion - that all people are of equal intelligence
  • Badiou's approach to 'axiom of equality' - assertion of universal truths, not simple denial of difference
  • Badiou's reinvigoration of category of 'truth' - involving rigid commitment to philosophy
  • Badiou's revival of militancy, its Pauline formulations - with clear limitations of its own
  • Badiou's work, of serious challenge - to those who wish to ground ethics in an experience of trauma
  • Badiou, and 'universal truths' - exceeding circulation of opinions within a given situation
  • Badiou, attacking 'pluralism' and 'relativism' - of contemporary theory
  • 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'
  • Badiou, not a partisan of philosophy - or champion of contemplative life detached completely from realm of human affairs
  • Militants of truth, communities of equality - Badiou and the ignorant schoolmaster

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