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Speculative Realism. Continental philosophy. It is difficult to identify non-trivial claims that would be common to all the preceding philosophical movements. The term "continental philosophy", like "analytic philosophy", lacks clear definition and may mark merely a family resemblance across disparate philosophical views. Simon Glendinning has suggested that the term was originally more pejorative than descriptive, functioning as a label for types of western philosophy rejected or disliked by analytic philosophers.[4] Babette Babich emphasizes the political basis of the distinction, still an issue when it comes to appointments and book contracts.[5] Nonetheless, Michael E. Rosen has ventured to identify common themes that typically characterize continental philosophy.[6] First, continental philosophers generally reject scientism, the view that the natural sciences are the only or most accurate way of understanding phenomena.
The term[edit] History[edit] Recent Anglo-American developments[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit] DeleuzeWhitehead.pdf (application/pdf Object) Bad I.O.U.: Badiou’s Fidelity to the Event Logos. 1. Immortality For Badiou, our mystical participation in the heroic Event is our triumph over mortality. Badiou’s Ethics includes a sustained polemic against a contemporary ideology of human rights that juxtaposes the “passive, pathetic or reflexive subject,” the mere suffering victim, to the “active, determining subject of judgment” that fights on behalf of the hapless victim. This ideology, Badiou asserts, subordinates politics to ethics, has no positive conception of the good, seeing it only as an absence of “Evil,” and defines human rights as nothing more than “rights to non-Evil.”
Badiou never reveals exactly which theorists or theories hold such depressing and idiotic tenets. He includes no citations and analyzes no texts. Badiou’s polemic is certainly correct in attacking victimology, one of the banes of the contemporary world. We should remember that in the phallocratic French language “la victime” is one of the few generic words that is feminine. Perhaps he has a point. 2. 3.