Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:37:51 -0600 From: Mary Murphy&Salstrand <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Critique of Badiou steve: Why is the Other necessarily a trap? I write, you write, Hugh writes, Shawn writes, Judy writes, Matthew writes, Glen writes.... Doesn't ethics emanate from these relationships with Others? Doesn't truth emanate from these relationships with Others? How does Badiou refute this? If something like social construction, however you define it, exists, then isn't the Other necessary since we do not live alone? Don't I come to know who I am only in the context of the Others who confront me? I find much that is stimulating in Badiou, but his polemics fail to convince me. I agree with his critique of human rights as a form of disguised politics, but it seems there is a deeper level that he simply does not confront. eric
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