Badiou and Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780748643516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Sean Bowden

Opis

The first reassessment of Alain Badiou's work since the English translation of his Logics of Worlds in 2009. From Cantor to category/topos theory, from Lacan to Lautman and from Sartre to the subject, these 13 essays engage directly with the work of Alain Badiou. They focus on the philosophical content of Badiou's work and show how he connects both with his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. This is an important collection for anyone interested in the work of Badiou and contemporary Continental philosophy.

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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Contributors; 1. Badiou’s Philosophical Heritage, Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy; I. Philosophy’s Mathematical Condition; 2. What is Post-Cantorian Thought? Transfinitude and the Conditions of Philosophy, Tzuchien Tho; 3. The Set-Theoretical Nature of Badiou’s Ontology and Lautman’s Dialectic of Problematic Ideas, Sean Bowden; 4. Badiou’s Platonism: The Mathematical Ideas of Post-Cantorian Set-Theory, Simon Duffy; 5. Sets, Categories and Topoi: Approaches to Ontology in Badiou’s Later Work, Anindya Bhattacharyya; II. Philosophical Notions and Orientations; 6. The Black Sheep of Materialism: The Theory of the Subject, Ed Pluth; 7. A Critique of Alain Badiou’s Denial of Time in his Philosophy of Events, James Williams; 8. Doing without Ontology: A Quinean Pragmatist Approach to Badiou, Talia Morag; 9. Towards a New Political Subject? Badiou between Marx and Althusser, Nina Power; III. Philosophical Figures; 10. ‘The Greatest of Our Dead’: Badiou and Lacan, Justin Clemens & Adam J. Bartlett; 11. Badiou and Sartre: Freedom, from Imagination to Chance, Brian A. Smith; 12. Badiou’s Relation to Heidegger in Theory of the Subject, Graham Harman; 13. One Divides into Two: Badiou’s Critique of Deleuze, Jon Roffe; Bibliography; Index.