Doubles of Nothing: The Problem of Binding Truth to Being in the Work of Alain Badiou

Authors

  • Justin Clemens

Abstract

In this article, I discuss how things go with the "Nothing" in the work of Alain Badiou, a topic which is evidently central to his thought, and which has received a great deal of attention in the commentary to date. As this problem is inaccessible outside of Badiou’s deployment of mathematics, I will suggest how accounts of Badiou’s work remain flawed insofar as they evade his mathematical demonstrations, and I attempt to clarify how mathematics operates in his system. I then examine the consequences that such a use of mathematics has for Badiou’s doctrine of the nothing. I conclude with a discussion of some of the difficulties that the nothing continues to pose to Badiou, which have not (yet) been satisfactorily resolved. These difficulties devolve from the problematic of the incessantly doubling void.

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Published

2005-01-01

How to Cite

Clemens, J. (2005). Doubles of Nothing: The Problem of Binding Truth to Being in the Work of Alain Badiou. Filozofski Vestnik, 26(2). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3147

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Much Ado about Being