【巴迪欧】哲学的欲望与当代世界.PDFVIP

The Desire for Philosophy and the Contemporary World Alain Badiou I would like to begin this philosophic talk under the banner of poetry, thus recalling that ancient tie, which has existed since the Greeks, between poetry and philosophy. Rimbaud uses a very strange expression: les r ¨voltes logiques, logical revolts. Philosophy is something like that: logical revolts. Philosophy sets up thought against inj ustice, against the defective state of the world and life. But it sets thought up in a movement which conserves and defends argument and reason, and which ultimately always proposes a new logic. Mallarme gives us this aphorism: a thought begets a throw of the dice. It seems to me that this enigmatic formula also designates philosophy. Because philosophy proposes to think the universal, which is true in fact for all thinking, but philosophy does this from within a commitment which is always somehow a risk, a commitment which chance always plays a role in. The four-dimensional desire for philosophy Fundamentally the desire of philosophy 1 first implies a dimension of revolt, for there is no philosophy without some muted discontent of thinking as it confronts the world as it is. It also implies logic, that is the belief in the power of argument and reason. It implies universality: philosophy adresses all men as thinking beings and supposes that all men think. Finally it comprises a risk: thinking is always a decision submitted to circumstances or chance. We can say reference whatever. And what is perhaps even more distressing, mass communication presents the world to us as a spectacle devoid of memory, a spectacle in which new images and new remarks appear to cover, erase and forget the very thing that has j ust been said and shown. A process which