Theory of the subject
By: Alain Badiou ; translated by Bruno Bosteels.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780826496737
Subjects: Ontology; Subjectivity; Truth
Work titles: Logiques des mondes.
Description: "Alain Badiou seeks to provide a theory of the subject for Marxism through a study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, offering a major contribution to Marxism, as well as to the larger debate regarding the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. The book also provides a theory of structural thought, a contemporary redefinition of materialism, a unique evaluation of the achievements of French Maoism during the 1970s and the significance of the events of May 1968, and breathtaking analyses of literature, from Greek tragedy to Mallarme's poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The place of the subjective; title: Everything that is of a whole constitutes an obstacle to it insofar as it is included in it; title: Action, manor of the subject; title: The real is the impasse of formalization : formalization is the locus of the passing-into-force of the real; title: Hegel : "the activity of force is essentially activity reacting against itself"; title: Subjective and objective; title: The subject under the signifiers of the exception; title: Of force as disappearance, whose effect is the whole from which it has disappeared; title: Deduction of the splitting; title: A la nue accablante tu?; title: Any subject is a forced exception, which comes in second place; title: Jewelry for the sacred of any subtraction of existence; title: Lack and destruction; title: The new one forbids the new one and presupposes it; title: On the side of the true; title: There are no class relations; title: Every subject crosses a lack of being and a destruction; title: The subjects antecedence to itself; title: Torsion; title: Theory of the subject according to Sophocles, theory of the subject according to Eeschylus; title: Of the strands of the knot, knowing only the color; title: A materialist reversal of materialism; title: The Black sheep of materialism; title: The indissoluble salt of truth; title: Answering to the sphinx demands from the subject not to have to answer or the sphinx; title: Algebra and topology; title: Neigborhoods; title: Consistency, second name of the real after the cause; title: So little ontology; title: Subjectivization and subjective process; title: The topological opposite of the knot is not the cut-dispersion but the destruction-recomposition; title: Subjectivizing anticipation, retroaction of the subjective process; title: Hurry! hurry! word of the living!; title: The inexistent; title: Logic of the excess; title: Topics of ethics; title: Where?; title: The subjective twist : and; title: Diagonals of the imaginary; title: Schema; title: Ethics as the dissipation of the paradoxes of partisanship; title: Classical detour; title: Love what you will never believe twice.