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.
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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