NDLI: Philosophy as Anti-Religion in the Work of Alain Badiou

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Author	Clemens, Justin Roffe, Jon
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The Heideggerian rupture in the history of philosophy in the name of a phenomenological and poetic ontology has provided an opening which many of the key figures in twentieth century continental thought have exploited. However, this opening was marked by Heidegger himself as an ambiguous one, insofar as metaphysics was perhaps integrally ‘onto-theology,’ that is, ultimately continuous with the world-historical capture of the thought of being. This piece argues that the philosophy of Alain Badiou, which departs from the recognition that Heidegger is the ‘last universally recognised philosopher’, provides the means for a radical reconsideration of the philosophy-theology relationship in its specifically Heideggerian form, involving as it does further questions of science and technology, the status of the poem, and the nature of ontological thought as such. We argue that, through the deployment of mathematics as ontology, the Gordian knot of onto-theology and its legion of consequences can be cut, and a new assemblage of many of the key Heideggerian motifs can be put into play: the poem, history, and philosophy itself.
Starting Page	345
Ending Page	358
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00381527
Journal	Sophia
Volume Number	47
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	1873930X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-09-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Onto-theology Poetry Mathematics Religion Badiou Heidegger Humanities Non-Western Philosophy Philosophy Religious Studies Philosophy of Religion
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Religious Studies

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