On Alain Badiou’s Subject Theory In The Light Of Event-ontology

As a rising new star among contemporary French philosophers, Baiou bluntly doubts andcriticizes almost all the post-modern thoughts in his philosophical masterpiece Being and Event.More detailed, he directly fights against post-modern relativism and nihilism by re-adopting theidea of universal Truth; he explores an feasible access to overthrowing the capitalist order bycreatively proposing the concept of Event; what’s more, he renews the meaning and importanceof contemporary Subject. In the era of global Capitalism, is there a way out of Capitalism?Anyway, Badiou’s Being and Event seems to attempt to illuminate us with the rebirth of Subject.Based on the interpretation of Being and Event, this paper is intended to reappear theemergence of his thinking about Subject, and then analyze how Badiou innovatively takesadvantage of former philosophies to elucidate his thoery of subject as well as highlighting theimportance of his idea for present. In order to catch a comprehensive moment of “Badiou”, theChapter One traces the roots of his subject theory in the complex background. His theoreticalexposition is not only loyal to the French May Flower, succeeds the theoretical heritage of the20thcentury French philosophy about Subject, but also firmly responds to the contemporarydecadent capitalism. According to Badiou, the emergence of subject is on the premise of eruptionof events. As a result, Chapter Two mainly discusses the ontology construction of Event which isbased on the mathematical ontology. In the light of Badiou’s theoretical clues, on the one hand,this paper will focus on the original proposition, that is “mathematics=ontology”, with the inspiration of Cantor’s Set Theory. On the other hand, this paper will retrieve how Badiouredefines the relationship between the One and the Multiple which had long been discussed sinceancient Greek. As a consequence, Badiou comes up with the conclusion that Multiple is prior tothe One. What should be mentioned here is that the intergration of mathematics and philosphywill be achieved by explaining the eruption of social event in the discourse of Set theory. At last,Chapter Three will emphasize the coming of subject in the background of truth-event. What’smore, combined with Badiou’s communist hypothesis, this paper will set Badiou’s subject theoryunder the present rule of capitalism, which is helpful to locate Badiou and his subject theory, aswell as shows a rebirth of subject to against the death of post-mordern deconstructionism andpost-structralism.