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If we account for Althusser’s theological writings, can we overcome the dichotomy between the truth and meaning (or sense), which is to say, can we still remain in the terrain of philosophy? “The truth” and “meaning” have always been antagonistic categories: in Badiou’s philosophy, the rupture between truth and sense marks the struggle between philosophy and antiphilosophy. In Badiou’s thought, the emergence of the antiphilosophical tradition (which he bestows on Lacan) conditions or stages the antagonism that marks the form that philosophy will take in contemporary predicament. In Badiou’s terms, “philosophy is always heir to anti-philosophy.”
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- 1.
“…a term introduced by the third great and fascinated detractor of philosophy from the last century, Jacques Lacan: antiphilosophy,” Badiou 2011, p. 73.
- 2.
Ibid., p. 10.
- 3.
Ibid., p. 68.
- 4.
Ibid., p. 69.
- 5.
Ibid., p. 1.
- 6.
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right , available online at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm
- 7.
Ibid.
- 8.
Ibid.
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Hamza, A. (2016). Antiphilosophy. In: Althusser and Pasolini. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56652-2_10
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