PHILOSOPHY. THE PROBLEM OF TRANSMISSION

Abstract

This article explores the possibility and limits of thinking itself: what thinking is, and what occurs when it takes place. It asks how one can reflect on the conditions and means through which one thinks, and what happens when thought itself becomes the object of reflection – that is, when philosophizing occurs. This is not a matter of introspection or self-reflection; rather, it aims to distinguish between the concept of thought and thought itself, attempting to remain at the level of pure thought – a “thought without me” – in pursuit of one’s own possible thinking.

Here, the term transmission is understood beyond the usual horizon of teaching or academic presentation. It primarily denotes the “encounter” of thinking with Thinking itself and is treated as an ontological term–a term of philosophical event or philosophy as event. The theme of teaching or schooling is presented as one possible framework for witnessing this event, resisting the conventional academic transmission of philosophy.

Transmission in philosophy cannot be content-based, hermeneutic, logical, or metaphorical; it is exclusively evental and actual. Philosophy in practice reveals a distinction between what the philosopher says and the conditions that make this saying possible.

This article does not focus on Badiou’s own treatment of «transmission», although his work exemplifies how a concept can generate the conditions for its own transmission. The author maintains that the encounter of thought with truth is defined more by «act» than «concept», emphasizing philosophical rigor and the pursuit of genuine thinking over truth itself.