Описание: The eminent French philosopher dialecticizes five of the artist Jean-Luc Moul nes objects with five conceptual formations from the history of Western philosophy.In this unique essay, first delivered as a lecture during a panel discussion with the artist and philosopher Reza Negarestani, Alain Badiou identifies and dialecticizes five of the artist Jean-Luc Moul nes objects with five conceptual formations from the history of Western philosophy. Aristotles complex of matter and form is called to mind to describe the inner logic of a hard foam sculpture. A bronze statue with holes activates Platos notion of participation of the concrete world in the injured Idea of the Beautiful. A small metallic and incomplete angel engages Leibnizs affirmation that everything that exists is composed of an infinity of things. Badious musings go on to pair a broken and repaired plastic chair with Victor Hugo; a terrible hand made of concrete with the Freudian unconscious; and a large-scale red and blue monster with rudimentary mechanisms of the Cartesian cogito, the famous I think, therefore I am, with unexpected inversions and variations.
Badiou refrains, of course, from claiming that Moul ne thinks about any of these philosophers when making his specific works. What he points to, however, in this richly illustrated bilingual volume, is that the artist and his art are on the side of philosophy.
