Alain Badiou. Different Philosophical Orientations Toward The Infinite. ...(2011)

source: European Graduate School      2011年12月16日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about four different philosophical choices concerning infinity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the possibility to maintain or suppress the relationship between the One and infinite, pure multiplicity without an immanent or transcendent reference to the One, and the faithful subject in relationship to Plato, Georg Cantor, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on nihilism, capitalism, the weak and poor god, nature, paganism, truth, life, affirmation and reactive subjectivity. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.