The noble family as "singular multiplicity"? : redefining the Smoczynski-Zarycki’s totemic definition of nobility through the lenses of Alain Badiou’s mathematical ontology

In our paper we are planning to redefine the category of "family" denoting the relationship of selected members post-noble/post-aristocratic milieu in Poland using Alain Badiou's terminology. Badiou's ontology based on mathematical set theory and generic theory is the most developed, complex and revolutionary ontology of the XX/XXI centuries. However it is rarely adapted to new empirical studies probably because of its novelty and complexity. We are not envisaging to base our reflection on the empirical case study made by Smoczynski/Zarycki but instead perform a translation of the Durkheimo-Lacanian theoretical standpoint from "Totem…" into the category of "singularity" [singularité] in its relation to "the state of situation" [état de la situation] from "Being and Event" (Badiou 2005) and to find a universalizing potential of nobility that will allow it to become a relevant truth procedure.