| Status | 已發表Published |
| No theme requires more pure logic than that of love: On Alain Badiou’s Amorous Axiomatics | |
| De Chavez, C. | |
| 2016-06-01 | |
| Source Publication | Kritike
 |
| ISSN | 1908-7330 |
| Pages | 269-285 |
| Abstract | In thinking the relation of love and affect, one experiences a strong intuition that they are locked in a passionate mutual embrace, and that they carry out their clandestine coupling in the dark alleys of the ineffable. The work of Alain Badiou, however, challenges such an “anti-philosophical” position, and posits that the truly philosophical way to approach love is through logic. In this essay I offer a timely explication of Badiou's thoughts on love, which is occasioned by the recent challenge posed by critical discourse to rethink love and is animated by the conviction that such a rethinking entails locating love in the domain of thought rather than in a domain beyond cognition and representation. At a time when love is threatened by accusations of being nothing more than a "cruel optimism," Badiou's thought is a philosophical defense of love by underscoring its kinship to thought and to truth. |
| Keyword | Love Badiou Continental Philosophy Affect |
| Language | 英語English |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 46831 |
| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | De Chavez, C.. No theme requires more pure logic than that of love: On Alain Badiou’s Amorous Axiomatics[J]. Kritike, 2016, 269-285. |
| APA | De Chavez, C..(2016). No theme requires more pure logic than that of love: On Alain Badiou’s Amorous Axiomatics. Kritike, 269-285. |
| MLA | De Chavez, C.."No theme requires more pure logic than that of love: On Alain Badiou’s Amorous Axiomatics".Kritike (2016):269-285. |
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