Think again Alain Badiou and the future of philosophy
Title:
Think again Alain Badiou and the future of philosophy
Author:
Hallward, Peter.
ISBN:
9781847144478
9780826459060
9780826459077
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Continuum, c2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 270 p.)
Contents:
Introduction : 'consequences of abstraction' / History of truth : Alain Badiou in French philosophy / Philosophy without conditions / Nihil unbound : remarks on subtractive ontology and thinking capitalism / Some remarks on the intrinsic ontology of Alain Badiou / Badiou and Deleuze on the one and the many / Badiou and Deleuze on the ontology of mathematics / Alain Badiou and the miracle of the event
States of grace : the excess of the demand in Badiou's ethics of truths / Ethics of militant engagement / Communism as separation / On the subject of the dialectic / From purification to subraction : Badiou and the real / What if the other is stupid? Badiou and Lacan on 'logical time' / Fifth condition / What remains of fidelity after serious thought
Badiou's poetics / Aesthetics, inaesthetics, anti-aesthetics
Abstract:
Alain Badiou's work has been described as "the event of contemporary philosophy" (Slavoj Zizek) and Badiou himself as "the most important, powerful and unsettling philosophical voice to have emerged from the Continent in recent years" (Simon Critchley). T.
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