Badiou s Anaethetics: A New Vision For the Relationship of Philosophy to Cinema

Research Summary
 
Contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou was interested in re-establishing philosophy, presenting a new vision of philosophical truth and the relationship of philosophy to the fields of the practice of human creativity such as science, politics, art and love. Cinema was one of his interests that continued with him throughout his journey. In this research, we seek to clarify the new ideas presented by Badiou on the relationship between philosophy and cinema, the centrality he sees to cinema, the ideas that cinema offers to philosophy, and the relationship of all this to his concept of truth and re-establishing philosophy and his new vision of aesthetics. The research also aims to clarify how Badiou linked his philosophy to Plato, and the limits of his influence on him. And his critique of the postmodern conception of the truth and its limits. Finally, we seek to clarify the new contribution that Badiou contributed to his vision of the relationship between philosophy and cinema in his association with his contemporary generation, especially the generation of Deleuze, and the reasons that led to this distinction.
 
            We begin in our research from three theses, first: that the Badiou project to save philosophy from destruction by contemporary philosophers is in fact a continuation of the contemporary knowledge project of these philosophers themselves. I emphasize in my second argument that Badiou's analysis of cinema is the place where his different intellectual achievements are coverge and articulated to re-establish both philosophy and Aesthetics, and also the birth of a new conception of the truth, which is comprehensive, eternal, pluralistic and historical at the same time. The third argument in my research is that the influence of Plato on Badiou is a contemporary re-reading in which Badiou used Plato's perceptions in a way that links with the previous philosophy while preserving the epistemology of the era in which he lives and the contemporary problems.
In order to reach the objectives and theses of the research, we divided the research into four main axes: The first axis deals with the Badiou project to restore the “truth” of philosophy as the first and only role of philosophy and save its eternal and holistic nature from the destructive perceptions of contemporary philosophers, especially postmodernists. The second axis deals with the relationship between philosophy and art, which crystallizes on the liberation of art from the power of philosophy and any external theoretical authority, and his goal is to reverse the influence between them so that it becomes from art to philosophy and not vice versa, which is called the aesthetics. To establish the legitimacy of cinema to be the object of philosophy, through his attempts to define the cinema and its basic characteristics and ultimately to find that it is not only a subject suitable for philosophy but a necessity for it. Finally, we will endeavor in this research to clarify the new contributions of Badiou to the perception of the relationship between philosophy and art and its links with the contemporary generation of him, especially Deleuze.