Conditions.
Title:
Conditions.
Author:
Badiou, Alain.
ISBN:
9781441194220
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- The Subtractive: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Philosophy Itself -- 1 The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself -- 2 Definition of Philosophy -- 3 What is a Philosophical Institution? Or Address, Transmission, Inscription -- Part II: Philosophy and Poetry -- 4 The Philosophical Recourse to the Poem -- 5 Mallarmé's Method: Subtraction and Isolation -- 6 Rimbaud's Method: Interruption -- Part III: Philosophy and Mathematics -- 7 Philosophy and Mathematics -- 8 On Subtraction -- 9 Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable -- Part IV: Philosophy and Politics -- 10 Philosophy and Politics -- Part V: Philosophy and Love -- 11 What is Love? -- Part VI: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis -- 12 Philosophy and Psychoanalysis -- 13 The Subject and Infinity -- 14 Anti-Philosophy: Plato and Lacan -- Part VII: The Writing of the Generic -- 15 The Writing of the Generic: Samuel Beckett -- Notes -- Index -- Index of Concepts -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.
Abstract:
Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', Badiou goes on to propose a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state. The essays that follow are ordered according to what Badiou sees as the four great conditions of philosophy: philosophy and poetry, philosophy and mathematics, philosophy and politics, and philosophy and love. Conditions provides an illuminating reworking of all the major theories in Being and Event. In so doing, Badiou not only develops the complexity of the concepts central to Being and Event but also adds new ones to his already formidable arsenal. The essays in Conditions reveal the extraordinary and systematic nature of Badiou's philosophical enterprise.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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