The Speculative Strategy. On the Ontological and Meta-Ontological Question in Badiou's Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol5Iss2a391Keywords:
Speculative, Ontology, Mathematics, Infini-tude, EventAbstract
This paper explores the recent updating of Badiou's general philosophical proposal in the specific approach of a "speculative strategy" in his recent book The Immanence of Truths. I hypothesize that the idea of a "speculative strategy" is a third stage in Badiou's project called "philosophy of the event", which fulfills and radicalizes the previous stages of "platonism of the multiple" and "communism of Idea", development whose continuity rests on the internal unity of his project flinking his ontological and meta-ontological wager as a necessarily systematic philosophy. First, I will show the general elements of Badiou's philosophy, explaining its stages and the emergence of what I will call "philosophy of the event and multiple being". Secondly, I will delve specifically into the convergence of the ontological thesis and the meta-ontological one, to characterize the author's enterprise as a systematic project detached from ontotheology thanks to the speculative recourse to mathematics to think infinity. Finally, I will argue that the "strategy" of the author's recent work implies a specification of the role of mathematics within his speculative ontology.
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