From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2006 - 15:14:29 EDT
On the question of subjectivity there is much present interest in Alain Badiou's theory of subjectivization in terms of fidelity to an event. His subject is strange but intriguing mixture of a Leninist-Maoist militant and an evangelist in the Pauline sense, and the theory is then grounded in a mathematical ontology derived from set theory! Badiou was a student of Sartre, then a proponent of Althusser, and then an exponent of the Cultural Revolution turn against Althusserianism. But Badiou's subject is not the same subject which Albritton is attempting to recover from the juridical fiction which passes for subjectivity. And there may still be more to be said about the Pashukanis/Althusser skepticism of the subject. Yours, Rakesh
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