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Inaesthetics and truth: The debate between Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière

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Shaw, D. Z. (2007). Inaesthetics and truth: The debate between Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. Filozofski Vestnik, 28(2), 183-199. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3182

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Author(s)

Shaw, Devin Z.

Title

Inaesthetics and truth: The debate between Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière

Publication Type

article

Date issued

2007

Journal/Book/Host Title

Filozofski Vestnik

Volume

28

Issue

2

Start Page

183

End Page

199

Abstract

In this essay I attempt to defend Badiou's conception of inaesthetics, drawn from the Handbook of Inaesthetics, from the pertinent criticisms of Rancière. In doing so, it is possible to delimit the intra-philosophical effects (truth effects) of artistic events (this combination being the domain of inaesthetics). Badiou can be defended from all of Rancière's objections, save the objection that inaesthetics asserts a 'propriety of art.' However, in granting this objection, it is possible to open a different question regarding Badiou's work: what is the status of Badiou's comments on art outside of the Handbook of Inaesthetics? Through a reading of Le siècle, I show that, for Badiou, the importance of art extends beyond inaesthetics to other domains of thought. Yet Badiou has yet to answer the question of how art and truth relate outside of the domain of inaesthetics.

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https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3182

ISSN

0353-4510

Publication note

Final article published

Subject(s)

Philosophy
Philosophy, Modern--20th century
Philosophy, Modern--21st century
Politics and government--Philosophy
Aesthetics
Truth
Truth (Aesthetics)

Language

English
Slovenian

Publisher

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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Peer reviewed

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