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9808 | Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou] |
Full Idea: Philosophy's role consists in informing mathematics of its own speculative grandeur. | |
From: Alain Badiou (Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little [2004], p.11) | |
A reaction: Revealing the grandeur of something sounds more like a rhetorical than a rational exercise. How would you reveal the grandeur of a sunset to someone? |
12318 | The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself [Badiou] |
Full Idea: The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself. | |
From: Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998]) | |
A reaction: Too good to pass over, too crazy to file sensibly, too creepy to have been filed under humour, my candidate for the weirdest remark I have ever read in a serious philosopher, but no doubt if you read Lacan etc for long enough it looks deeply wise. |