The event, the messianic and the affirmation of life. A post-critical perspective on education with Agamben and Badiou

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 849-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Vlieghe ◽  
Piotr Zamojski
Keyword(s):  
Saint Paul ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Pedagogical Expertise ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Affirmation Of Life ◽  
Education Today

In this article, we read together the work of two philosophers, Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben, as profound educational thinkers. This means that their philosophical approaches help us to articulate what is at stake in education today. As a starting point for this discussion we take their work on Saint Paul. This is because, throughout his Letters, Paul has found the appropriate words to think and speak about the fate of our world and about new ways of beginning with this world. Therefore, with their reading of Paul, Badiou and Agamben can be said to develop fresh ideas about the contemporary challenges of education. We argue that this joint educational reading of their work, opens a post-critical view on education. This is to say, the alternative we suggest is not just a criticism of the existing system, but an entirely affirmative one. It is about fidelity to an event which has the force to install a particular attitude towards life and which installs a messianic interruption of time. With Badiou and Agamben it can be shown that education is about the possibilities we have at our disposal to begin anew with our world – which turns education into an important political issue too. Following that thread, we give an ontological account of teaching, which defines the teacher not in terms of pedagogical expertise, but in terms of passion for a subject matter.

scholarly journals One Divided by Another

2012 ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
Luca Di Blasi
Keyword(s):  
Saint Paul ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Pier Paolo Pasolini ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

While Christian churches dramatically lost ground during the last decades (at least in European societies), in this very period one of the major Christian figures, Saint Paul, attracted the interest of leading ‘progressive’ intellectuals and philosophers like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, or Giorgio Agamben. In the following text, by focusing on Pasolini and his uncompleted film project San Paolo, I will concentrate on the notion of the split.

The Time of Indifference: Mandelstam's Age, Badiou's Event, and Agamben's Contemporary

CounterText ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
William Watkin
Keyword(s):  
Modern Time ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Alain Badiou

There has been little direct discussion between perhaps the two leading philosophers of our age: Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben. Yet both men have written about the same poem by Osip Mandelstam, ‘The Age’, around the topic of time. Significantly, Agamben's response, written after Badiou's, is a subtle and damning critique of Badiou's conceptualisation of time, in particular extended across the categories of the modern, the contemporary, and the now or the event – although it never actually mentions Badiou by name. In this paper the lens of the central role of indifference in the work of both is used to present alternating and competing views as to the nature of modern, contemporary, and ‘now’ time. Specifically, a contrast is drawn between Badiou's use of indifference as both quality-neutral and absolutely non-relational, and Agamben's application of the indifferent suspension of the temporal signature as such. The paper concludes that while Badiou uses temporal indifference to question and problematise the idea of modern time as ‘now’, through a theory of the event, Agamben appears to go further. Rather than analyse the nature of modern time, the contemporary and the now through his reading of Mandelstam, Agamben uses Mandelstam's poem to suspend the Western conception of time as a line composed of points in its entirety.

TEORI KECERDASAN, PENDIDIKAN ANAK, DAN KOMUNIKASI DALAM KELUARGA

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muskinul Fuad
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Howard Gardner ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Brain Functions ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Family ◽  
Education Today ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Spatial Logics

The education system in Indonesia emphasize on academic intelligence, whichincludes only two or three aspects, more than on the other aspects of intelligence. For thatreason, many children who are not good at academic intelligence, but have good potentials inother aspects of intelligence, do not develop optimally. They are often considered and labeledas "stupid children" by the existing system. This phenomenon is on the contrary to the theoryof multiple intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner, who argues that intelligence is theability to solve various problems in life and produce products or services that are useful invarious aspects of life.Human intelligence is a combination of various general and specific abilities. Thistheory is different from the concept of IQ (intelligence quotient) that involves only languageskills, mathematical, and spatial logics. According to Gardner, there are nine aspects ofintelligence and its potential indicators to be developed by each child born without a braindefect. What Gardner suggested can be considered as a starting point to a perspective thatevery child has a unique individual intelligence. Parents have to treat and educate theirchildren proportionally and equitably. This treatment will lead to a pattern of education that isfriendly to the brain and to the plurality of children’s potential.More than the above points, the notion that multiple intelligences do not just comefrom the brain needs to be followed. Humans actually have different immaterial (spiritual)aspects that do not refer to brain functions. The belief in spiritual aspects and its potentialsmeans that human beings have various capacities and they differ from physical capacities.This is what needs to be addressed from the perspective of education today. The philosophyand perspective on education of the educators, education stakeholders, and especially parents,are the first major issue to be addressed. With this step, every educational activity andcommunication within the family is expected to develop every aspect of children'sintelligence, especially the spiritual intelligence.

Corruption as a Political Issue in Modern Societies: France, Great Britain and the United States in the Long 19th Century

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Ivo Engels
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Bureaucratic State

The so-called “long 19th century”, from the French Revolution to the First World War, ranks as the crucial phase in the genesis of the modern world. In the Western countries this period was characterized by the differentiation of the public and the private spheres, the birth of the modern bureaucratic state and the delegitimation of early modern practices such as clientelism and patronage. All these fundamental changes are, among other things, usually considered important preconditions for the modern perception of corruption.This paper will concentrate on this crucial phase by means of a comparative analysis of debates in France, Great Britain and the United States, with the aim to elucidate the motives for major anti-corruption movements. The questions are: who fights against corruption and what are the reasons for doing so? I will argue that these concerns were often very different and sometimes accidental. Furthermore, an analysis of political corruption may reveal differences between the political cultures in the countries in question. Thus, the history of corruption serves as a sensor which enables a specific perspective on politics. By taking this question as a starting point the focus is narrowed to political corruption and the debates about corruption, while petty bribery on the part of minor civilservants, as well as the actual practice in the case of extensive political corruption, is left aside.

scholarly journals Demanda: Literatura e Filosofia, de Jean-Luc Nancy

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Lock Farina
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière

Publicada originalmente na coleção “La philosophie en effet”, da prestigiada editora Galilée, na França em 2015, com o título Demande. Philosophie, littérature, a coletânea de textos de Jean-Luc Nancy, inédita enquanto tal e organizada por Ginette Michaud, professora da Universidade de Montreal, chega ao Brasil devido à iniciativa em parceria entre a editora da UFSC e a editora Argos, da Unochapecó. Nancy (1940-), professor emérito da Universidade de Estrasburgo, é certamente um dos filósofos mais conceituados no universo acadêmico atual, ao lado de Alain Badiou, Hélène Cixous, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben e Jacques Rancière. Seu destaque se dá sobretudo em função das contribuições acerca do político e da democracia, da obra em conjunto com Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, de seus escritos sobre Jacques Derrida e da preocupação constante em relacionar a arte de maneira geral com o pensamento filosófico. Sua produção, entretanto, é ainda pouquíssimo traduzida no Brasil. Na tarefa de suprir essa falta, Demanda: Literatura e Filosofia (365 p.) reúne textos de 1977 a 2015, disponíveis até então somente em periódicos ou resultantes de conferências e entrevistas, dando mostras da trajetória do autor no que concerne o debate entre o aproveitamento da literatura e do modo singular (a singularidade para Nancy é sempre uma singularidade plural) com que ela convoca a filosofia para um pensamento conjunto, crítico e afectante a respeito da vida, da atividade política e dos sentidos nas suas concepções mais amplas.

scholarly journals A palavra poética no ter-lugar da língua: estética, ética e política

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-131
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Duarte de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Alain Badiou

RESUMO Trata-se de um trabalho que objetiva especular sobre a natureza e a função da palavra poética do ponto de vista da relação que estabelece entre o estético, o ético e o político. Inquieta-nos saber como a linguagem poética, inscrita no seio da língua, pode se configurar como um gesto de resistência e subversão ao investir na não-representação e na apresentação de um (quase) ser nascente no aqui e agora de sua presença no "ter-lugar" da língua. Filósofos contemporâneos, como Alain Badiou e Giorgio Agamben, apontam possíveis respostas para essa questão por meio da operação de negatividade que se faz na língua, de modo a torná-la não informativa. Barthes também acena nessa direção ao se deter sobre o vazio da aparição do "é isto" na forma poética do haicai, que bloqueia qualquer interpretação ulterior. Espera-se que esses modos de pensar o poético possam oferecer à crítica literária novos parâmetros investigativos.

scholarly journals Vida e comunidade em Clube da Luta e A praia

2018 ◽  
pp. 291-306
Author(s):  
Joacy Ghizzi Neto
Keyword(s):  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Chuck Palahniuk

A partir das narrativas Clube da luta (1996) de Chuck Palahniuk e A praia(1996) de Alex Garland, o presente artigo investiga as configurações comunitáriasque essas ficções propõem na virada do milênio. Os dois livros sãoo ponto de partida para analisar uma dialética da ruptura e da fundação, dolugar e do território, mas também entre arte e vida, já que a narrativa comunitáriaassombra a própria paixão pelo real (Alain Badiou, O século). É diantedessa contradição que as leituras de Giorgio Agamben (A comunidade que vem),Jean-Luc Nancy (A comunidade inoperante) e Massimo Cacciari (Nomes de lugar:confim) nos permitem discutir o paradoxo da relação sujeito e comunidade. Asduas narrativas analisadas propõem um deslocamento diante do mundo emnome de um outro lugar. Tornados território, configuram-se a partir de identidades,Clube, ou de restrições geográficas, Praia, e passam então a encenarexatamente as contradições que pretendiam romper. É para esse fracasso, quenão é mais o universalista, que o presente trabalho atenta.

Bios Theōrētikos, Bios Politikos

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-47
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Bennington
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière

The difficult relation of politics and philosophy has most often been negotiated with reference to the distinction between the bios theōrētikos and the bios politiōs. It is argued that this opposition is unstable from Aristotle onwards, and that effects of that instability can be read throughout the tradition, through Kant and Hegel, up to and including Hannah Arendt and John Rawls, Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben and Hardt & Negri. The instability of that distinction calls for a deconstructive rather than a dialectical understanding of difference.

scholarly journals Apostles of anti-philosophy: Badiou and Lyotard

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Enda McCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Saint Paul ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
Poetic Composition

This article explores the impact of the turn in French theological thought in the 1980s by focusing on one of its consequences – the advent of anti-philosophy as act. In his work L’antiphilosophie de Wittgenstein (2009a), Alain Badiou explored the main aspects of anti-philosophy: the void, non-thought, anti-historicism. Drawing on this work and with specific reference to Badiou’s Saint Paul: La fondation de l’universalisme (1997) and Jean-François Lyotard’s La Confession d’Augustin (1998), I argue that, as a category of truth founded in the void, the anti-philosophical act enables Badiou to traverse the divisional effects of religious and cultural relativism and reposition subjectivity and eventiveness outside historicism and sophistry. Lyotard, I maintain, extends anti-philosophy through the idiom of poetic composition as an exercise in elimination, and through confession as a process that reveals the rift between the expression of an event and its immanence. Badiou and Lyotard revise our understanding of belief through anti-philosophy as an act that forgoes the ideology of cultural relativism for the purity of thought.

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