Badiou and The Politics of Emancipation

Abstract

In this study, Alain Badiou’s “politics of emancipation” approach will be discussed critically. It will be tried to show how the concepts of event, truth, subject and faith that consistute the central themes of Badiou’s philosophy are related with the politics of emancipation. Also it will be emphasised how these concepts would provide a possibility to change the world’s established order. The contributions of this political contention approach −which aims to realize a universal emancipation imagination− to the creation of a new collective formation will also be stressed.