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The Transcendental And Inexistence In Alain Badiou’S Philosophy: A Derridean Similarity?, Antonio Calcagno
The Transcendental And Inexistence In Alain Badiou’S Philosophy: A Derridean Similarity?, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
In Logics of Worlds, Badiou claims that his concept of inexistence is similar to Derrida’s différance. This paper argues that Derrida’s double bind of possibility and impossibility, which co-constitutes and flows from the spatio-temporising that is différance, is less binary in its logic than Badiou’s notion of inexistence allows. For Badiou, time and the subject are constituted by the event, by a decision and the fidelity to a decision. He has no real sense of Derridean space: Badiou discusses space as localisation, atoms, situations or the containment that is proper to any set. Derridean spatialsing stems from de Saussure and …
Badiou And Derrida: Politics, Events And Their Time, Antonio Calcagno
Badiou And Derrida: Politics, Events And Their Time, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
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Jacques Derrida And Alain Badiou: Is There A Relation Between Politics And Time?, Antonio Calcagno
Jacques Derrida And Alain Badiou: Is There A Relation Between Politics And Time?, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
This paper argues that though Derrida is correct to bring to the fore the undecidability that is contained in his political notion of the democracy to come, his account does not extend the aporia of undecidable politics far enough. Derrida himself makes evident this gap. Though politics may be structured with undecidability, there are times when direct, decisive and definitive political interventions are required. In his campaign against capital punishment, the blitzing campaigns in Bosnia and Iraq, and in his call for les villes-refuges, Derrida makes decisive appeals which somehow seem to contradict the undecidability he sees as arch-structuring. Alain …