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...[[existence]] only takes on [[meaning]] by virtue of the finite [[limit]] set by [[death]], so that the [[human]] [[subject]] is properly a "[[death|bein

...Event]], which he theorizes in [[mathematical]] [[terms]], using Cantorian set [[theory]]. Being, or Being-as-Being, is for Badiou an “irreducible multi ...and “[[historicity]] proper”: whereas the former refers to a specific set of historical circumstances that lead to, and explain, the Event, the latte

...at if ideology resides in the very belief that, outside the closure of the finite universe, there is some "true reality" to be entered?(2)

...to the infinite order of Truth, the subject always has to operate within a finite multiple of a situation in which he discerns the signs of Truth. Take, for ...ween [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicism refers to the set of circumstances (economic, political, [[cultural]], etc.) whose complex in

..."[[speech]] act," relies for its performative power on the preestablished set of symbolic rules and/or norms. ...ho disavows that divine miracles occur and reduces himself to just another finite mortal being.<ref>In a further elaboration, one should thus reread Lacan's

...ltimately, he reduced transcendental horizon to a way reality appears to a finite being (man), with all of it located into a wider encompassing realm of noum ...contrary, in his very search for a transcendent domain beyond the realm of finite oppositions: Kant is not unable to reach the Infinite - what he is unable o

...o on) but that [[particular]] [[scientific]] breakthroughs are immediately set against [[humanist]] 'values', leading to complaints that [[biogenetics]], ...e human genome effectively emancipates humankind from the constraints of a finite [[species]], from enslavement to the 'selfish gene'. Emancipation comes at

...e other species being the »mortal souls,« but the open-ended, illimited, set of souls which belong to the third domain, neither mortal nor immortal. For ...ltimately, he reduced transcendental horizon to a way reality appears to a finite being (man), with all of it located into a wider encompassing realm of noum

...at if ideology resides in the very belief that, outside the closure of the finite universe, there is some "true reality" to be entered?(2)<br>

...to the infinite order of Truth, the subject always has to operate within a finite multiple of a situation in which he discerns the signs of Truth. Take, for ...ween [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicism refers to the set of circumstances (economic, political, [[cultural]], etc.) whose complex in

..."[[speech]] act," relies for its performative power on the preestablished set of symbolic rules and/or norms. ...ho disavows that divine miracles occur and reduces himself to just another finite mortal being.<ref>In a further elaboration, one should thus reread Lacan's

The "[[work of mourning]]" is a set of [[mental]] [[processes]], [[conscious]] and [[unconscious]], initiated b ...ct's disappearance—is itself a way of refusing reality. For the object's finite [[nature]] [[exists]] in that outside world, irrespective of the subject's

...devour its own [[children]], the [[political]] [[agent]] which effectively set in motion the process is renegated into the role of its main obstacle, of t ...mposes itself: the human being IS in its very [[essence]] a "passage," the finite opens into an abyss.

...ou take the set of all elements which are not members of themselves, the [[set]] that you constitute with such elements leads you to a paradox which, as y

...nces, an infinite variety of sentences, and infinitely long sentences from finite means (Aspects 15–16). Cognitive linguistics. While generative grammar assumes a set of specifically linguistic universal principles underlying all languages, c

...s and communities embedded in it, always experience from a [[particular]], finite, perspective of our historical world. ...ace of visibility of the ruling ideology) as “minor” measures will not set in motion a [[process]] that will lead to the radical (evental) transformat

...ruly New, possible?", but, rather, how do we pass from Being to World, to (finite) appearance, i.e., how can Being, its flat infinite multiplicity, APPEAR (t ...duals and communities embedded in it, always experience from a particular, finite, perspective of our historical world. What democratic materialism furiously

...Punish, of the [[formation]] of the free individual through a [[complex]] set of disciplinary micro-practices - and, as Pippin doesn't wait to point out, ...rnal agent of &quot;natural authority&quot;, who can do the job for me and set me my limit, that I myself have to pose a limit to my natural &quot;unrulin

...for some form of divine limitation: (1) first, God is directly posited as finite or, at least, contained, not omnipotent, not all-encompassing: he finds him ...the third position above and beyond the first two (the sovereign God, the finite God), that of a suffering God: not a triumphalist God who always wins at th

...yclopaedia</i>, Par. 410.</ref> Not only language, a much more [[complex]] set of spiritual and [[bodily]] activities have to be turned into a habit in or ...aying wheel which prays for me to today’s "canned laughter" where the TV set laughs for me, turning my emotional display quite literally into a mechanic

Yes or no – is the empty set the proper name of being as such? Or must we believe that this term more ap ...ween a structural recurrence, which thinks the subject-effect as the empty set, so exposed in he uniform network of experience, and a hypothesis of the ra

...xuality. It is the production of an infinite subjective series through the finite means of a material subtraction. 6. The subject of an artistic truth is the set of the works which compose it.

...is the deadlock of Reason: when it tries to overstep the boundaries of our finite experience, reason (logos, symbolic order) gets necessarily entangled in an ...ey are numbers that can't be described by algebraic operations: there's no finite sequence of multiplications, divisions, additions, subtractions, exponents,

...and Symbolic). Both extremes are illusionary: pure excess as well as pure finite order would disintegrate, cancel themselves out. Such an approach misses th ...ne and Punish'', on the formation of the free individual through a complex set of disciplinary micro-practices―and, as Pippin does not hesitate to point

...orders of the signifier and the signified: since the signifying network is finite, it cannot adequately cover the endless field of the signified in its entir ...re or less than that ''floating signifier'' which is the disability of all finite thought". (Lévi-Strauss 1987: 63)

...bring together Heidegger (who defines "care" as the fundamental feature of finite ''Dasein'') and Hegel (the philosopher of infinite Absolute Knowledge in wh ...of their own intelligibility, which is the true "infinite" immanent to the finite itself. The contrast with Heidegger's own full assertion of finitude could

...ed for any commodity we may need. Then, once the circulation of capital is set in motion, the relationship is inverted, the means turns into an end-in-its ...y represent, or in the form of a Divinity too sublime to be grasped by our finite mind. In other words, the point of Pippin's rehabilitation of art is not th

...'not ''being secured by the transcendent, ''by ''being wholly temporal and finite, always and everywhere in suspense, and yet nonetheless capable of some ill ...in history seems to have happened to them. … The wisest men in the world set out to be natural; and the most unnatural thing in the world was the very f

...grasp and forever remains the opaque horizon into which we are "thrown" as finite beings. And it is customary to interpret the opposition between consciousne ...ences prove that there must be some X which is "expressed" in the cultural set of values, attitudes, rituals… which materialize our way of life. What is