“La vraie vie est absente”: on the relationship between subject and truth in Foucault and Badiou
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https://doi.org/10.36517/arf.v17i1.95536Keywords:
Subject. Truth. True life. Event. Critique. Contemporary philosophy.Abstract
This article proposes a cross-reading of Michel Foucault and Alain Badiou around the question of true life, articulated with the categories of subject and truth. Despite the profound differences between a critical ontology of historically situated subjectivity (Foucault) and a formal-ontological theory of the subject (Badiou), the text aims to demonstrate a possible convergence in their shared rejection of hegemonic forms of normativity and in their affirmation of philosophy as an ethical-political practice. By contrasting the negative infinity of Foucauldian critique with the affirmative infinity of Badiouian fidelity, it is argued that both approaches seek, each in its own way, to reinscribe the possibility of a transformative existence within their historical moment.
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