Alain Badiou
Subtitle: live theory
By: Oliver Feltham.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780826496928; 9780826496935
Subjects: Badiou, Alain
Description: Alain Badiou is undoubtedly the most exciting and influential voice in contemporary French philosophy and one of the most important theorists at work today. His impact on continental philosophy and the wider philosophy community, politics and the arts in the last twenty years has been immense. Alain Badiou: Live Theory offers a concise and accessible introduction to his work and thought, laying out the central themes of his major works, including his magnum opus, Being and Event, and its long-awaited sequel, Logics of Worlds. Oliver Feltham explores the fundamental questions through which Badiou's philosophy constantly evolves, identifies the key turning points in his ideas, and makes a clear case for the coherence and powerful singularity of his thought when employed in the analysis of political and artistic situations. Feltham examines the thinkers and theorists with whom Badiou has engaged and who have engaged with him, arguing that Badiou's work is compelling precisely because it opens up new genealogies and new polemics in the intellectual landscape. The book includes a brand new interview with Badiou, in which he discusses his current concerns and future plans. This is the ideal companion to study for students and readers encountering this fascinating thinker for the first time
Table of contents: title: Structural change in society; title: Althusser and the marxist theory of social change; title: Badiou's theorization of consistency; title: Change or genesis : the return of Aristotle; title: Structural change in knowledge : science and ideology; title: Epistemological break as infinite process; title: Badiou?' epistemology of logic; title: Science and the machinic production of novelty; title: The mathematical concept of model and scientific change; title: Models and their powers of differentiation; title: Transformational nominations in mathematics; title: How can an epistemology be progressive?; title: Theoreticism and the primacy of practice; title: Maoism and the dialectic; title: The maoist turn : the primacy of practice; title: Introduction: there is no science of history; title: Truth in revolt; title: There is truth in history; title: Description and prescription : folding theory into practice; title: The structural dialectic and its periodization; title: The structural dialectic : offsite and splace; title: The problem of periodization; title: The real and the genesis of structure; title: Force and the purification of the party; title: Truth as torsion; title: Courage and justice; title: Ruptures in knowledge : the eagle; title: Political history and the militant's knowledge : the old mole; title: Consistency and the historical dialectic; title: Algebraic versus topological consistency; title: Topology in Lacan : the owl; title: Topology in politics; title: Set theory and the reworking of the dialectic; title: The final synthetic schema; title: Set theory ontology and the modeling of change; title: Introduction: The subtraction of maoism; title: Set theory ontology; title: Turning to philosophy to separate from Heidegger; title: Mathematics is ontology; title: Set theory and its infinite multiples; title: The excess of the powerset; title: The localization of change via the regionalization of being; title: The event and the intervention; title: The extra dose of contingency : the non-existence of history; title: The intervention and the self-naming of the event; title: Forcing and the generic; title: The existence of unknown consistency; title: Forcing, the work of the subject, supplementation, and the old mole; title: The problem of voluntarism; title: The permanency of the state, right-badiousianism, and the owl; title: The eagle, the owl, and the old mole; title: Method; title: Two objections : verification and redundancy; title: Philosophy and its conditions; title: Method in his maoism : dialectical braiding versus modeling; title: Modeling and braiding as sequencing : logics of incompletion.