Alain Badiou de Ser e Evento a Condições

Páthos do fim e a reconfiguração da verdade com a atualização do Matema

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how Badiou responds to the crisis of contemporary philosophy, which is linked to the announcement by the Heideggerian, Marxist, and analytic traditions of the end of metaphysics. Here, metaphysics is stripped of its status as the science of being, which falls back upon the very domain of ontological thought. In view of this, Badiou finds in the return to Plato and in the mathematical novelty of the last centuries the means to reconstitute a mathematical ontology capable of representing the characteristics of that which appears in the world—that is, of that which is capable of being represented. What emerges in this representation is the fundamental feature of being and of all existing beings: multiplicity. However, mathematics by itself cannot decide how, from the void, something new can be apprehended—the event, that is, the inaugural novelty of each condition of philosophy. There is a need for the presentation of presentation, of being, but also—and perhaps more importantly—there is a need for subjects faithful to the event.