Alain Badiou Quotes on Truth
Badiou's Being and Event (1988) and Logics of Worlds (2006) develop a Platonist theory of truth on a mathematical foundation supplied by Cantorian set theory. Truth for Badiou is not the agreement of a proposition with a pre-existing fact but the consequence of an event — a singular, situation-specific occurrence whose implications cannot be coded by the existing categories of the situation in which it erupts — to which a subject is faithful through the post-evental work of drawing out its consequences. The four truth-procedures — politics, art, science, love — are the only domains within which genuine truths arise, and the philosophical task is the conceptual articulation of the truth-procedures actually under way in a given situation.
Quotes
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“Mathematics is ontology.”
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“Truth is what punches a hole in knowledge.”
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“There is no ethics in general, only the ethics of singular truth procedures.”
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“Be faithful to the event that has touched you.”
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“This book founds a doctrine which is effectively post-Cartesian, or even post-Lacanian, a doctrine of what, for thought, both un-binds the Heidegerean connection between being and truth and institutes the subject, not as support or origin, but as fragment of the process of a truth.”
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“It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.”
Miscellaneous quotes | Original French: Il est donc tout simplement faux que ce dont on ne peut parler (au sens ou il n'y a rien à en dire qui le spécifie, qui lui accorde des propriétés séparatrices), il faille le taire. I -
“Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).”
Miscellaneous quotes | Original French: La vérité est un mot neuf en Europe (et ailleurs). From L'être et l'événement . Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1988. ISBN 2020098628 . The quote is a variation on Louis de Saint-Just , "Ha