Disjunctive Synthesis
Disjunctive Synthesis
This chapter examines the exchange of insults between Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze during 1976, when the former was still a young lecturer at the philosophy department of the University of Vincennes in Paris and the latter was already a full professor. Badiou called Deleuze a fascist, and in return Deleuze called him a bolshevik. The chapter explains that Badiou's insult was provoked by the success of Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus and the recent publication of Rhizome, which was later included as the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus. It also analyses Badiou and Deleuze's conception of the term disjunctive synthesis.
Keywords: Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, University of Vincennes, fascist, bolshevik, Anti-Oedipus, Rhizome, Thousand Plateaus, disjunctive synthesis
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