Seizing Truths: Art, Politics, Law

ART AND LAW, pp. 73-92, O. Ben-Dor, ed., Routledge, 2011

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Igor Stramignoni

London School of Economics - Law School

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Date Written: June 27, 2011

Abstract

The work of French philosopher Alain Badiou has been described as the most powerful alternative yet conceived in France to the various forms of postmodernism that arose after the collapse of the Marxist project. Art interests Badiou in its own right but also as both that which, in the twentieth century, eclipsed philosophy and as that which today philosophy, increasingly de-sutured from art, must imitate in order to make clear that there are truths after all. Badiou conceives of law, on the other hand, as part and parcel of a specific political machine that must continuously perform certain problematic exclusions if it is to keep the fiction of parliamentary democracy together. So how is the relationship between art and law, between the poet and the city, in Badiou’s oeuvre?

A shorter version of this essay was presented to the symposium on 'Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics and Justice', held at Tate Modern London in March 2010, and it was published in LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers 14/2010.

Keywords: Badiou, truth, language, subtraction, inaesthetics, democracy, law

Suggested Citation

Stramignoni, Igor, Seizing Truths: Art, Politics, Law (June 27, 2011). ART AND LAW, pp. 73-92, O. Ben-Dor, ed., Routledge, 2011 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1873284

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