2009: What is it to Live?/Qu’est-ce que vivre ?
« Nous voici à même de proposer une réponse à ce qui, depuis toujours, est la question ‘intimidante’ – comme le dit un personnage de Julien Gracq – à laquelle, si grand soit son détour, la philosophie est à la fin sommée de répondre : qu’estce que vivre ? ‘Vivre’, évidemment, non pas au sens du matérialisme démocratique (persévérer dans les libres virtualités du corps), mais bien plutôt au sens de la formule énigmatique d’Aristote : vivre ‘en Immortel’. »
- Alain Badiou, Logiques des mondes
“We are now in a position to propose a response to what has always been the ‘daunting’ question – as one of Julien Gracq’s characters has it – the question that, however, great its detour, philosophy must ultimately answer: what is it to live? ‘To live’ obviously not in the sense of democratic materialism (persevering in the free virtualities of the body), but rather in the sense of Aristotle’s enigmatic formula: to live ‘as an Immortal’.”
- Alain Badiou, Logics of Worlds
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Life Between Creation and Duration
| Deleuze et les modes de vie mineurs |
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Vanessa Brito |
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| The Life of the Party: A Brief Note on Nietzsche’s Ethics |
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Justin Clemens |
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| From Hamartia to “Nothingness”: Tragedy, Comedy and Luther’s “Humilitas” |
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Felix Ensslin |
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| Kant and the “Spirit as an Enlivening Principle” |
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Jan Volker |
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Lacanian Biology
| Affective Life between Signifiers and Jouis-sens: Lacan’s Senti-ments and Affectuations |
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Adrian Johnston |
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| The World of Desire: Lacan between Evolutionary Biology and Psychoanalytic Theory |
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Lorenzo Chiesa |
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Displacing Humanism
| A Small, Additonal, Added–on Life Speaking. Remarks on the Vitalism in Giorgio Agamben's Critical Theory |
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Marc de Kesel |
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| Humanism Reconsidered, or: Life Living Life |
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Frank Ruda |
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Other Than Being
| Alain Badiou, Kojève, and the Return of the Human Exception |
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Ed Pluth |
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| What is it to Live? Critical Considerations with Regard to Badiou and Bergson Concerning Life Theory and its Language |
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Gernot Kamecke |
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| On the Materialism of the Idea |
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Rado Riha |
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| Infinitization of the Subject |
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Jelica Šumič-Riha |
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