Badiou and politics
By: Bruno Bosteels
Series: Post-contemporary interventions
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780822350583; 9780822350767
Subjects: French Philosophy; Political and social views
Description: This volume offers an interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou. Countering ideas of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the event as a radical break, Bosteels reveals Badiou's deep and ongoing investment in the dialectic.
Table of contents: title: The absent cause; title: Lack and destruction; title: One divides into two; title: The ontological impasse; title: Forcing the truth; title: Logics of change; title: From potentiality to inexistence; title: For lack of politics.