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dc.contributor.authorLeung, King-Ho
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-14T09:30:01Z
dc.date.available2021-01-14T09:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.identifier271505451
dc.identifier745eb9b5-23c9-4189-b508-b35bf4d9bb7d
dc.identifier85099468582
dc.identifier000607474100001
dc.identifier.citationLeung , K-H 2021 , ' The one, the true, the good… or not : Badiou, Agamben, and atheistic transcendentality ' , Continental Philosophy Review , vol. 54 , no. 1 , pp. 75-97 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-020-09526-5en
dc.identifier.issn1387-2842
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5551-7865/work/86987285
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21270
dc.description.abstractThis article offers a reading of the “transcendental” character of Alain Badiou’s and Giorgio Agamben’s ontologies. While neither Badiou nor Agamben are “transcendental” philosophers in the Kantian sense, this article argues that their respective projects of ontology both recover aspects of the “classical” conception of the transcendentals. Not unlike how pre-modern philosophers conceived of oneness, truth and goodness as transcendental properties of all things, both Badiou’s and Agamben’s ontologies present various structures which can be universally predicated of all being. However, as opposed to the essentialist or even theological tendencies of traditional metaphysics, Badiou’s and Agamben’s ontologies are committedly “inessential” and atheistic at their very core. By replacing the divine perfections of the one, the true and the good in traditional metaphysics with a new yet quasi-classical transcendental notion of “the void” as a universal predicate of all beings, Badiou’s and Agamben’s works may be regarded as projects that go beyond both the pre-Kantian “theological” and the post-Kantian “subjective” conceptions of transcendental philosophy, thereby marking a new development in the history of western metaphysics.
dc.format.extent662970
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofContinental Philosophy Reviewen
dc.subjectBadiouen
dc.subjectAgambenen
dc.subjectTranscendentalen
dc.subjectOntologyen
dc.subjectMetaphysicsen
dc.subjectAtheismen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleThe one, the true, the good… or not : Badiou, Agamben, and atheistic transcendentalityen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorJohn Templeton Foundationen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11007-020-09526-5
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberTRT0275en


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