Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part One)
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 00:51:04
• Published: 2021-12-06 05:53

On "What Is Love," which is ch. 11 of Conditions (1992). We see what it means to call love a "truth procedure": It's a new way of seeing, through the eyes of the Two, not the merger of two souls or the loving of god through another. Does B's pseudo-mathematical language about this make sense?

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