Alain Badiou offers an important corrective to the current state of philosophy. As others have claimed, he admits that there are “only bodies and languages,” but adds: “except there are also truths.” According to Badiou, truths are eternal and universal, although they appear locally when an event overturns a given situation. Badiou’s “except there are” is of considerable importance for the contemporary era: leading thought out of the impasse of postmodernism, and of a “democratic materialism.” His conception of truths is supported by the consistency and the breadth of Badiou’s thought (which includes mathematical ontology, set theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary logic) and constitutes one of the most important philosophical projects of today.
The conference “Philosophy Of Truths” will analyze the richness of Alain Badiou’s philosophy and its potential contribution to understanding Central Europe. The conference will further address the relations between Badiou’s thought with disciplines such as aesthetics, politics & architecture.
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