The Praxis of Alain Badiou





Edited by Paul Ashton, A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens


Price: $35.00 AUD $23.00 USD €25.00 Euro £16.00 GBP


ISBN-10: 0 9803052 0 9


ISBN-13: 9780980305203



Publication date: 1 December 2006


Pages: 436


Format: 234x156 mm (6x9 in) Paperback


Series: Anamnesis




Description



Following the publication of his magnum opus L’être et l’événement (Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed as one of France’s greatest living philosophers. Since then, he has released a dozen books, including Manifesto for Philosophy, Conditions, Metapolitics and Logiques des mondes (Logics of Worlds), many of which are now available in English translation. Badiou writes on an extraordinary array of topics, and his work has already had an impact upon studies in the history of philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, political philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and ontology. This volume takes up the challenge of explicating, extending and, in many places, criticising Badiou’s stunningly original theses. Above all, the essays collected here put Badiou’s concepts to the test in a confrontation with the four great headings that he himself has identified as essential to our humanity: science, love, art and politics. Many of the contributors have already been recognised as outstanding translators of and commentators on Badiou’s work; they appear here with fresh voices also destined to make a mark.




Contents


Introduction




Masters & Disciples: Institution, Philosophy, Praxis


Paul Ashton, A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens


What is a Philosophical Institution? Or: Address, Transmission, Inscription


Alain Badiou


Science



The Law of the Subject: Alain Badiou, Luitzen Brouwer and the Kripkean Analyses of Forcing and the Heyting Calculus


Zachary Fraser


The Limits of The Subject in Badiou’s Being and Event


Brian Anthony Smith


Had we but worlds enough, and time, this absolute, philosopher…


Justin Clemens




Love




Count-as-one, Forming-into-one, Unary Trait, S1


Lorenzo Chiesa


Introduction to Sam Gillespie


Sigi Jöttkandt


Giving Form to Its Own Existence: Anxiety and the Subject of Truth


Sam Gillespie


Conditional Notes on a New Republic


A. J. Bartlett




Art




An Explosive Genealogy: Theatre, Philosophy and the Art of Presentation


Oliver Feltham


Ontology and Appearing: Documentary Realism as a Mathematical Thought


Lindsey Hair


Can Cinema Be Thought? Alain Badiou and the Artistic Condition


Alex Ling




Politics




Towards an Anthropology of Infinitude: Badiou and the Political Subject


Nina Power


The Bourgeois and the Islamist, or, The Other Subjects of Politics


Alberto Toscano


Philosophy and Revolution: Badiou’s Infidelity to the Event


Toula Nicolacopoulos and George Vassilacopoulos

Follysophy


Dominique Hecq


Bibliography of Work on and by Alain Badiou in English


Contributors


Index
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