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

Table of Contents

Life Between Creation and Duration

Deleuze et les modes de vie mineurs Abstract PDF
Vanessa Brito
The Life of the Party: A Brief Note on Nietzsche’s Ethics Abstract PDF
Justin Clemens
From Hamartia to “Nothingness”: Tragedy, Comedy and Luther’s “Humilitas” Abstract PDF
Felix Ensslin
Kant and the “Spirit as an Enlivening Principle” Abstract PDF
Jan Volker

Lacanian Biology

Affective Life between Signifiers and Jouis-sens: Lacan’s Senti-ments and Affectuations Abstract PDF
Adrian Johnston
The World of Desire: Lacan between Evolutionary Biology and Psychoanalytic Theory Abstract PDF
Lorenzo Chiesa

Displacing Humanism

A Small, Additonal, Added–on Life Speaking. Remarks on the Vitalism in Giorgio Agamben's Critical Theory Abstract PDF
Marc de Kesel
Humanism Reconsidered, or: Life Living Life Abstract PDF
Frank Ruda

Other Than Being

Alain Badiou, Kojève, and the Return of the Human Exception Abstract PDF
Ed Pluth
What is it to Live? Critical Considerations with Regard to Badiou and Bergson Concerning Life Theory and its Language Abstract PDF PDF
Gernot Kamecke
On the Materialism of the Idea Abstract PDF
Rado Riha
Infinitization of the Subject Abstract PDF
Jelica Šumič-Riha