Event and decision
Subtitle: ontology and politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead
By: edited by Roland Faber, Henry Krips and Daniel Pettus
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781443819268
Subjects: Ontology; Philosophy; Events (Philosophy); Political science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A prologue on the improper placing of thought / Roland Faber; title: The thought of stupefaction; or, Event and decision as non-ontological and pre-political factors in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou / Justin Clemens and Oliver Feltham; title: Absolute beginnings ... almost: Badiou and Deleuze on the event / Hollis Phelps; title: The problem of essence in Deleuze and Whitehead / Jeremy Dunham; title: The triune event: event ontology, reason, and love / James Bradley; title: Between the individual, the relative and the void: thinking the event in Whitehead, Deleuze and Badiou / Keith Robinson; title: Fear of politics: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the truth of Badiou / Jeffrey Bell; title: Badiou, Whitehead, and the politics of metaphysics / Michael Halewood; title: "Amid a democracy of fellow creatures"; title: onto/politics and the problem of slavery in Whitehead and Deleuze (with an intervention of Badiou) / Roland Faber; title: Practical philosophy in Badiou and Whitehead / Helmt Maassen; title: Sexuating the political: from Badiou to Lacan / Henry Krips; title: Novel repetitions: the fold-event in Whitehead and Deleuze / Catherine Keller; title: Encountering "The event" as event: transforming Christian theological reflection about religious others / David R. Brockman; title: On the politics of secular forgiveness / Adrian Parr; title: Event theory and creative agency / Graham Livesey; title: An impolite epilogue / Henry Krips.