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A vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou
Is inattention to questions of race more than just incidental to Alain Badiouâs philosophical system? Universal Emancipation reveals a crucial weakness in the approach to (in)difference in political life of this increasingly influential French thinker. With white nationalist movements on the rise, the tensions between commitments to universal principles and attention to difference and identity are even more pressing.Â
Elisabeth Paquetteâs powerful critical analysis demonstrates that Badiouâs theory of emancipation fails to account for racial and racialized subjects, thus attenuating its utility in thinking about freedom and justice. The crux of the argument relies on a distinction he makes between culture and politics, whereby freedom only pertains to the political and not the cultural. The implications of this distinction become evident when she turns to two examples within Badiouâs theory: the NĂ©gritude movement and the Haitian Revolution. According to Badiouâs 2017 book Black, while NĂ©gritude is an important cultural movement, it cannot be considered a political movement because NĂ©gritude writers and artists were too focused on particularities such as racial identity. Paquette argues that Badiouâs discussion of NĂ©gritude mirrors that of Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1948 essay âBlack Orpheusâ that has been critiqued by leading critical race theorists. Second, prominent Badiou scholar Nick Nesbitt claims that the Haitian Revolution could only be considered political if its adherents had shifted their focus away from race. However, Paquette argues that not only was race a central feature of this revolution but also that the revolution ought to be understood as a political emancipation movement.
Paquette also moves beyond Badiou, drawing on the groundbreaking work of Sylvia Wynter to offer an alternative framework for emancipation. She juxtaposes Badiouâs use of universality as indifference to difference with Wynterâs pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, emphasizing solidarity over indifference. Paquette then develops her view of a pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, wherein particular identities, such as race, need not be subtracted from a theory of emancipation.
EdituraUniversity of Minnesota Press
Dimensiuni141 x 216 x 16
Data Publicarii27/10/2020
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Numar pagini200
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O contributie vitala si in timp util la bursa in crestere cu privire la gandirea politica a lui Alain Badiou Este neatentia fata de problemele de rasa mai mult decat doar incidenta la sistemul filosofic al lui Alain Badiou? Emanciparea universala releva o slabiciune cruciala in abordarea (in) diferentei in viata politica a acestui ganditor francez din ce in ce mai influent.