Badiou's

The exclusions do not operate — as in Fish's or Badiou's account — in order to assure the coherence of a single doctrinal position, but instead to assist in, and enhance, the decisions and actions of individuals in a group

Romantic Fear 2008

Badiou's argument differs from Fish's in that, for Badiou, the conquering civilization's demand for sameness masks an ontological condition of infinite difference, the recognition of which grounds ethical truth.

Romantic Fear 2008

Badiou's ethics arises in the first place because of his claim — like Fish's — that political urges to inclusion simply obscure a commitment to uniformity and exclusion.

Romantic Fear 2008

Toleration was not necessarily a set of coherent beliefs and attitudes enforcing sameness, as in Fish's and Badiou's accounts.

Romantic Fear 2008

Badiou's revision of Hegelianism — the problem with multiculturalism is that it is a false universality — demonstrates a second powerful interpretation of the secular, which has its origins in

Romantic Fear 2008

Rather than accepting Badiou's characterization of Deleuze as a thinker of reality in biological term (as opposed to Badiou's mathematical orientation), we should see Deleuze as proposing a “problematic” version of mathematics, versus Badiou's axiomatic conception.

Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008

The problem with an ethics of fidelity Badiou's truth is that fidelity itself becomes the point of it--that 'remaining true' becomes more important than acting in this way or that way.

Badiou's ethics of truth Adam Roberts Project 2007

The problem with an ethics of fidelity Badiou's truth is that fidelity itself becomes the point of it--that 'remaining true' becomes more important than acting in this way or that way.

Archive 2007-09-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

This sort of loyalty is obviously wrongheaded; but it's hard to see, in Badiou's scheme, how to challenge it.

Archive 2007-09-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

Badiou's ethics posits Bill Sikes's dog as the model for 'how to act'.

Badiou's ethics of truth Adam Roberts Project 2007