Huang Qihong: Badiou’s “Negative bet365 score” and its Limitations
May 30, 2019 09:21 Source: "Chinese Social Sciences Journal" Issue 1703, May 30, 2019 Author: Huang Qihong

Recent years,The field of foreign Marxist research in China,The study of bet365 score began to receive academic attention。With the deepening of research,Badiou’s dialectical theory begins to enter people’s field of vision,Some scholars have given high praise to Badiou’s bet365 score,Some people even think that Badiou’s bet365 score theory is a peak in contemporary Marxist bet365 score research。Is this really the case??Does Badiou’s dialectical theory really inherit Marx’s dialectical tradition?These views are considered in the context of the development history of Marxist bet365 score,What position is it in??

  Positive bet365 score and Negative bet365 score

In Badiou’s view,bet365 score has different understandings in different Western philosophical traditions,For example,There is Plato’s dialectic、Socrates’ bet365 score、Aristotle’s bet365 score、Kant’s bet365 score、Hegel’s bet365 score、Marx’s bet365 score、Adorno’s bet365 score and other different types of bet365 score,If we ignore their internal nuances,Can be roughly divided into two categories,That is, positive bet365 score and negative bet365 score。

The so-called affirmative bet365 score,It is to seek a speculative unity after the two major links of intelligence and bet365 score,Reach the final certainty of totality,Therefore, affirmative bet365 score always requires the construction of a system,To seek the final basis and ontology outside the phenomenal world of experience,We must strive to find the final certainty and order for the phenomenal world。Under the premise that "God is dead" and the disintegration of the teleological worldview,This kind of bet365 score that pursues the unity and affirmation of the whole may bring about metaphysical "terror"。To a certain extent,This dialectic is responsible for the two world wars that have occurred in mankind since the 20th century。Badiou is fiercely and resolutely critical of the bet365 score of affirmation,Refuse to seek a speculative unity after the dialectical stage,Strive to keep thinking and theory in the stage of dialectical negation and creativity,Always open your mind to multiple possibilities。This negative bet365 score is a bet365 score oriented to specific events,It is to discover new possibilities in the process of negating the existing order。

Badiou emphasizes the significance of negative bet365 score,To a certain extent, it is also because he sees that capitalist ideology and civilization have created an airtight whole,If you want to smash this whole thing,Find a new way of existence for human beings,It is necessary to discover the critical and revolutionary nature of bet365 score。Adhere to the end of bet365 score as a creative and revolutionary principle that Marx emphasized in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844,Maintain a critical distance from the conservative culture and production of capitalism,Be prepared for the possible communist revolution。

It can be said,Badiou’s understanding of bet365 score,Partly influenced by Heidegger’s phenomenology and Althusserian polydeterminism。Heidegger clearly emphasized the importance of the existence of Dasein in "Being and Time",Event is an ontology,The world around Dasein is constructed in events。Dasein is not facing a ready-made world in itself,The world of Dasein is in an accidental event,Constructed in the relationship between cause and effect and meaning,It is a dynamic process。Therefore,Dasein is essentially a kind of "ability-being",It is "to-exist"。In this world of "can-be",There is a dialectical structure,But this is not a fixed and universal structure,Quite the opposite,This is an individual one、Historic、Non-replicable future-proof structure。

Althusser further emphasized,There are multiple reasons for the relatively stable structure of the world,There is no single cause that produces this stable structure,These diverse reasons,Some are inevitable,Some are completely accidental。In specific historical events,What causes the historical subject will encounter,This does not depend at all on the historical subject itself,But a chance encounter。Badiou’s bet365 score inherits Heidegger’s event ontology,And associated with Althusser’s polydeterminism and materialism of chance encounters,In a sense,It is a negative bet365 score that stubbornly stays in the accidental encounter of mysticism。

  Critical Reflections on bet365 score Dialectic

In our opinion,Badiou’s understanding of bet365 score is in line with the spirit of the young Marx。Before 1846, Marx was looking for a new way out of Hegel’s huge ideological system,Indeed, there was a time when the critical and revolutionary nature of bet365 score was emphasized,Emphasis on the negative side of bet365 score,In this sense,Badiou’s understanding of bet365 score makes sense。But,This is not all Marx’s understanding of bet365 score,Not even the main part。

Marx not only emphasized the affirmative dimension of bet365 score in his mature period,Even in his youth he did not completely abandon the affirmative dimension of bet365 score。In "On the Jewish Question", Marx posited the revolutionary subject of "proletariat",This revolutionary subject cannot be discovered by simply staying in the dialectical stage,The historical function assumed by the "proletariat" is to transcend private ownership and civil society as a whole,This reflects Marx’s deterministic understanding of the purpose of history。

With the continuous development of thoughts,Whether it is in "German Ideology",Still in the "Communist Manifesto",Whether it is in the "Economic Manuscripts 1857-1858",Still in "Das Kapital",Marx consciously adopted a view of historical teleology,And this historical teleology is precisely a basic feature of affirmative bet365 score。If we carefully reflect on the categorical movements in Capital,You will find that Marx also borrowed Hegel’s antithesis and syllogism,But Marx creatively transformed Hegel’s syllogism as spiritual movement into a syllogism as movement of material social relations。

Therefore,We believe that Badiou’s understanding of Marx’s bet365 score is one-sided。Neither Hegel nor Marx’s bet365 score simply stay at the dialectical stage,But to enter a higher level of certainty。Whether we call Marx’s bet365 score “historical bet365 score” or “materialist bet365 score”,It all contains the third link,That is, the unifying link of certainty。If Marx’s bet365 score did not have the third link,Then Marxism is difficult to reconcile with the kind of revolution for revolution’s sake、Anarchism for the sake of negation、Difference between Blanquism and Trotskyism,Marxism can only be reduced to a revolutionary doctrine,It cannot become a constructive doctrine。

In our opinion,Badiou strives to maintain the critical and revolutionary nature of bet365 score in the face of the overall bourgeois culture and production model of the West,The theoretical ambition to defend the communist ideal is worthy of recognition,But his understanding of Marx’s bet365 score is indeed one-sided。We should be wary of Badiou’s bet365 score,Not just because it dismembers Marx’s bet365 score,Also because this kind of dismemberment will lead to Badiou not being able to find the real revolutionary subject、The motivation and direction of revolution,In this way,Badiou’s radicalism can only remain at the theoretical level but cannot be put into practice。In real life, but unknowingly integrated into the totality of capitalism,Creating a life of cynicism toward capitalism。If the theoretical radicalism is sincere, it deserves recognition,But if this radicalness is just a theoretical performance,Just part of the capitalist cultural industry,That would be sad。

Now that we have clearly seen the overall limitations of Badiou’s theory,And this limitation is directly related to his theory of bet365 score,Then it is impossible for us to do what some scholars think,I think Badiou’s bet365 score theory is the peak of contemporary Marxist bet365 score theory。On the contrary, we think,Badiou’s dialectical theory only one-sidedly inherits the critical and negative dimensions of Marxist bet365 score,Without inheriting the affirmative and constructive dimensions of Marxist bet365 score。

Replace blind worship with problem awareness

Through a realistic analysis of Badiou’s bet365 score,We believe that in the future process of promoting Marxist research abroad,We should pay attention to three methodological principles。

First, we need to carefully screen contemporary left-wing thinkers in the West。Not all Western left-wing thinkers are Western Marxists,Their ideas are not necessarily the inheritance and development of Marxism,bet365 score very likely to be a distortion and subversion。For those who distort and subvert the basic principles of Marxism、People of methods and positions,We must not only be highly vigilant,And you must have the courage to have a theoretical argument with it,To defend the truth of Marxism。

The second is to abandon the blind worship of Western Marxism。Analyze their thoughts objectively and calmly,Pay high attention to those ideas that are truly original and inspiring,We must also have a clear awareness bet365 score limits of these thinkers,You can neither rest on your laurels nor blindly criticize,Don’t over-elevate without subjectivity,Abandon the illusion that the more recent a character is, the deeper his thoughts will be。

Third, the study of Western Marxism must strengthen China’s awareness of contemporary issues。Focus on discovering those Western Marxist thoughts that have the power to explain and construct contemporary China,Make them useful theoretical resources for solving contemporary problems in China。For those ideas that are not in line with contemporary Chinese society,bet365 score’s more about doing some rational analysis,Analyze their significance in the history of thought,rather than realistic meaning。

  (Author’s affiliation: Marxist Theory Research Center and Institute of Western Marxism, Southwest University)

Editor: Wang Ning
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