BADIOU: REINVENTION OF LOVE
BADIOU: AŞKIN YENİDEN İCADI

Author : Nurten KİRİŞ YILMAZ
Number of pages : 436-444

Abstract

Love is one of the important concepts for French philosopher Alain Badiou. Badiou considers love as a condition of doing philosophy and he says that the philosophy expects from people who are interested in philosophy to be scholar, artist, and militant and in love. However, nowadays, love is interrupted and almost lost its dignity. Thus, the main purpose of Badiou is to give its reputation, which is almost gone, back to the love. Badiou opposes philosophy, art, literature, politics and science that ignores the importance of love in our lives. According to him, love brings out the reality of the world in every encounter. Thus, it would be out of question to give up on love or not to believe in love. Love should be praised by being aware of its subjective power. According to Badiou, love is either being raised to a sacred position as a reflection of the

Keywords

Badiou, Schopenhauer, love, invention of love, falling in love.

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