Alain Badiou's Pasolini : the problem of subtractive universalism
- Bruno Besana's article 'Badiou's Pasolini: The Problem of Subtractive Universalism' also deals with Pasolini's script about Saint Paul, but from the perspective of Alain Badiou's theoretical essay "Saint Paul and the Foundation of Universalism" and of Badiou's different thoughts on Pasolini, on the logic of emergence of novelty, and on its thwarted relation with universalism. Two main points appear in Besana's comparative reading. First, the idea that radical novelty or change can only be built in a 'subtractive manner', i.e. via the appearance of something that, by its sole presence, erodes the consistency upon which the present is structured. This is developed through Pasolini's ideas of 'inactuality' and 'forza del passato' and by Badiou's concept of 'event'. Second, a fundamental paradox inherent to the logic of change: change is only possible if it is organized in a set of coherent consequences, but the organized mode (for instance, the party) of such consequences inevitably reduces change to a constant compromise with the present.
Author: | Bruno Besana |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-519774 |
URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-06/besana_badious-pasolini.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_12 |
ISBN: | 978-3-85132-681-9 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | The scandal of self-contradiction : Pasolini's multistable subjectivities, geographies, traditions ; Cultural Inquiry ; 6 |
Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
Place of publication: | Wien |
Editor: | Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2019/12/11 |
Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2019/12/20 |
Tag: | Change; Event; Logic; Universalism Pasolini, Pier Paolo: San Paolo |
GND Keyword: | Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Paulus, Apostel, Heiliger; Badiou, Alain; Universalismus; Logik; Ereignis; Wandel |
Page Number: | 28 |
First Page: | 209 |
Last Page: | 236 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 458872059 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
8 Literatur / 85 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen / 850 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen | |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |