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Badiou on Deconstruction

What does ‘deconstruction’ mean? Towards the end of his life, Derrida liked very much to say that, if there was one thing that had to be deconstructed, as a matter of urgency, it was deconstruction, the word deconstruction. Deconstruction had become something in the academic repertory. To give it a meaning was, in a sense, [...]

Badiou on Derrida-Bashing

A philosophical tribute is what I believe to be the fitting tribute. A tribute that signals the gap and gives it a power of its own. In order to pay that tribute, I need a few preliminaries, and I will give them here in an extremely simple form. A justified simplicity. For there was, beneath [...]