Iz gozda na plan: kartezijanstvo za 21. stoletje (ki sledi)

Badiou’s philosophy has often been described by claiming that he labours for a new beginning of philosophy – after the (postmodern, deconstructivist) criticisms of the subject, systematic thought, the category of truth, etc. But his oeuvre has thus far not been systematically related to the works of the “radical new beginning of philosophy” (Husserl) that was introduced by the “grandfather of revolution” (Nietzsche), i.e. René Descartes. The article carefully traces the Cartesian elements in Badiou’s thought by highlighting how the two most prominent arguments that can be found in Descartes works (the infamous cogito argument and the argumentative proof of God’s existence) find a very specific and peculiar re-articulation in Badiou’s thought (and especially in his meta-ontology). It is by means of comprehending this very re-articulation that one consequentially is able to situate Badiou not only with regard to the theory of the subject that is so closely entangled with his name, but also with a – maybe – surprising category: the category of the unthinkable. By developing this Cartesian-Badiousian line, the article demonstrates how most of the misreading of Badiou’s ontological claims (i.e. that being is multiple) can be avoided and how the new beginning he labours for can be understood as a renewed Cartesianism for the next century (to come).Badioujevo filozofijo se pogosto razume kot prizadevanje po osnutju nove filozofije – po (postmoderni, dekonstruktivistični) kritiki subjekta, sistematičnega mišljenja, kategorije resnice itd. A doslej se ni še nihče lotil podviga sistematične navezave njegove filozofije na »radikalno nov začetek filozofije« (Husserl), ki ga zaznamujejo dela »deda revolucije« (Nietzsche), Renéja Descartesa. Članek gre po sledi kartezijanskih elementov v Badioujevi misli, pri čemer pokaže, da sta oba najbolj razvpita dokaza, ki ju poda Descartes (zloglasni dokaz cogita in dokaz za Božje bivanje), v Badioujevi misli (zlasti v njegovi meta-ontologiji) deležna zelo specifične in nenavadne reartikulacije. S podrobnim branjem te reartikulacije lahko opredelimo ne le Badioujev odnos do teorije subjekta, ki je tako tesno povezana z njegovim imenom, pač pa tudi njegovo stališče do – nemara – presenetljive kategorije nemisljivega. Članek z razvitjem te povezave med Descartesom in Badioujem pokaže, da se je z njenim upoštevanjem mogoče izogniti večini napačnih branj Badioujevih ontoloških trditev (denimo trditve, da je bit mnoštvo) in da lahko nov začetek, za katerega si prizadeva Badiou, razumemo kot ponovno oživitev kartezijanstva v novem stoletje (ki sledi)