%0 Journal Article
%T Towards an Anthropology of Infinitude: Badiou and the Political Subject
%A Nina Power
%J Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
%D 2006
%I Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op.
%X In the English-language reception of Alain Badiou#39;s work, he has often been one-sidedly positioned as a direct heir to the antihumanist projects of Lacan, Althusser and Foucault. Whilst there is much to this claim, this paper argues that the retention of a notion of the #39;political subject#39; in Badiou#39;s work necessarily also depends upon a commitment to a much-underexamined notion of a minimal philosophical anthropology that puts Badiou in a tradition with thinkers such as Ludwig Feuerbach. It is further argued that Badiou#39;s minimal philosophical anthropology is opposed in essence to apparently similar phenomenological projects because it aligns humanity with infinity and not finitude.nbsp;
%K Badiou
%K Feuerbach
%K Philosophical Anthropology
%K The Subject
%K Humanism
%K Antihumanism
%U http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/34