"It is only watching, waiting, attention": Rethinking love with Alain Badiou and Simone Weil

Love has traditionally been thought in conjunction with emotion, affect, passion and feelings. The work of Alain Badiou, however, challenges such an "anti-philosophical" position, and posits that the truly philosophical way to approach love is through logic, which also underscores loves cl...

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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:faculty_research-25422022-04-05T05:48:15Z "It is only watching, waiting, attention": Rethinking love with Alain Badiou and Simone Weil De Chavez, Jeremy Love has traditionally been thought in conjunction with emotion, affect, passion and feelings. The work of Alain Badiou, however, challenges such an "anti-philosophical" position, and posits that the truly philosophical way to approach love is through logic, which also underscores loves close kinship to thought and to truth. In this essay, the author draws on Badiou's thoughts on love to theorise an amorous politics. Responding to critiques on Badiou's evental politics as essentially passive, the author suggests that the thought of Simone Weil offers a way to think of waiting as a pre-evental form of political agency. The author argues that positioning Badiou's thought with Weil's makes even more legible the political utility of his radical philosophy of love. © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2015. 2015-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1543 Faculty Research Work Animo Repository Love Alain Badiou, 1937- Simone Weil, 1909–1943 Arts and Humanities
institution De La Salle University
building De La Salle University Library
continent Asia
country Philippines
Philippines
content_provider De La Salle University Library
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topic Love
Alain Badiou, 1937-
Simone Weil, 1909–1943
Arts and Humanities
spellingShingle Love
Alain Badiou, 1937-
Simone Weil, 1909–1943
Arts and Humanities
De Chavez, Jeremy
"It is only watching, waiting, attention": Rethinking love with Alain Badiou and Simone Weil
description Love has traditionally been thought in conjunction with emotion, affect, passion and feelings. The work of Alain Badiou, however, challenges such an "anti-philosophical" position, and posits that the truly philosophical way to approach love is through logic, which also underscores loves close kinship to thought and to truth. In this essay, the author draws on Badiou's thoughts on love to theorise an amorous politics. Responding to critiques on Badiou's evental politics as essentially passive, the author suggests that the thought of Simone Weil offers a way to think of waiting as a pre-evental form of political agency. The author argues that positioning Badiou's thought with Weil's makes even more legible the political utility of his radical philosophy of love. © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2015.
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title "It is only watching, waiting, attention": Rethinking love with Alain Badiou and Simone Weil
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