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Diagonals: Truth-Procedures in Derrida and Badiou

  • Christopher Norris (author)
Chapter of: Speculations 3(pp. 150–188)

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TitleDiagonals
SubtitleTruth-Procedures in Derrida and Badiou
ContributorChristopher Norris (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0010.1.08
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculations-iii/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightNorris, Christopher
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-09-03
Long abstractBadiou’s relationship to Derrida is complex, ambivalent, at times distinctly fraught, and often—despite an impeccable politeness of phrasing—somewhat impatient in tone. All the same it doesn’t exhibit anything like the pattern of routine inter-generational conflict that has characterised so many episodes of post-war French in-tellectual history. Thus it bears no resemblance to those acts of barely concealed parricidal intent by which Sartre ousted the dominant currencies of pre-war (whether rationalist or Bergson-influenced) thought, or the structuralism of Lévi-Strauss, Althusser and company purported to consign Sartrean existentialism to the dustbin of outworn humanist ideas, or structuralism in turn gave way to the combined assaults of post-structuralists, postmodernists and other such reactive movements. Indeed there is something decidedly majestic about the way that Badiou rises above such manifestations of the short-term Zeitgeist or sad displays of the odium scholasticumthat all too often substitutes for serious debate. His attitude toward Derrida—as evidenced by the brief but revealing encomium collected in the volume Pocket Pantheon—is one of admiration mixed with a certain ironic reserve and some shrewdly aimed though far from hostile remarks about the lack of any direct activist involvement on Derrida’s part in the events of May 1968. Even here Badiou is keen to make allowance for the highly mediated character of “deconstruc-tive politics” or the need to approach that topic with a due regard for Derrida’s immensely patient, meticulous and painstaking way with texts, among them (if belatedly) the texts of Marx. More than that: he puts the case for Derrida as a political thinker of the first importance, just so long as we read his work with the kind of extreme attentiveness and rigour that he brings to the work of others.
Page rangepp. 150–188
Print length39 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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