Badiou and the Political Condition

ISBN-13: 9780748678808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str.

Marios Constantinou

Opis

The essays in this volume, including a new piece by Badiou himself, reflect the formative traditions that shape the background of his political thought. They intervene critically and evaluate the present state of Badiou's work, while also breaking new ground and creating new thresholds of political thought.
It includes a range of established scholars and rising theorists of the Badiou-effect, each engaging with the critical question of 'how to transmit the exception politically, at the intersection of contemporary anti-imperial polemics and debates that strike at the heart of the post-modern condition (Lyotard), deconstruction (Derrida), psychoanalysis (Lacan--D%Zi ek ), biopolitics (Hardt and Negri) and pedagogy (Ranciere).
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Spis treści

Introduction; Forcing Politics: Badiou’s Anabasis In the Age of Empire, Marios Constantinou; Part I: The Crisis of Negation And The Political Condition; 1. From Logic to Anthropology: Affirmative Dialectics, Alain Badiou; 2. Conditioning Communism: Badiou, Plato and Philosophy as Meta-Critical Anamnesis, Frank Ruda; 3. The Narrative Politics of Active Number, Ed Pluth; 4. The Pascalian Wager of Politics: Remarks on Badiou and Lacan, Dominiek Hoens; 5. Contra Opinionem: Politics as an Anti-Imperialist Procedure, Marios Constantinou; Part II: Compossibilities: Conditions of Philosophy in the Wake of Politics; 6. Reversing and Affirming the Avant-Gardes: A New Paradigm for Politics, Jan Voelker; 7. Badiou on Inaesthetics and Transitory Ontology: The Case of Political Song, Christopher Norris; 8. Love in the Time of the Communist Hypothesis, Norman Madarasz; 9. The Politics of Comradeship: Philosophical Commitment and Construction in Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, Sean Homer; 10. Not Solvable by Radicals: Lacan, Topology, Politics, A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens; Bibliography; Index.