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Alain Badiou: Live Theory

Author : Oliver Feltham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144119374X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Alain Badiou: Live Theory written by Oliver Feltham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Theory of the Subject

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826496733
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Theory of the Subject written by Alain Badiou and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou's earlier work (including Being and Event) can only be fully understood with a clear grasp of Theory of the Subject, one of his most important works.

Badiou

Author : Peter Hallward
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452904504
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Badiou written by Peter Hallward and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alain Badiou: Live Theory

Author : Oliver Feltham
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826496938
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Alain Badiou: Live Theory written by Oliver Feltham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and accessible introduction to this key theorist.

Alain Badiou

Author : Gabriel Riera
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148307X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Alain Badiou written by Gabriel Riera and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little doubt that Alain Badiou is one of the most challenging and controversial figures in contemporary philosophy. This volume of essays brings together leading commentators from both sides of the Atlantic to provide an introduction to Badiou's work through critical studies of his more productive and controversial ideas. Over the course of three decades, his numerous and extensive texts have challenged traditional views on ontology, mathematics, aesthetics, literature, politics, ethics, philosophy, and sexual difference. His texts on Plato, Saint Paul, Pascal, Lacan, Althusser, Heidegger, MallarmeŒ, Pessoa, and Beckett are among the most perceptive and penetrating essays on contemporary philosophical and literary culture. In addition to providing insight into the basic conceptual apparatus of Badiou's philosophy, the essays also offer a more substantial critical assessment of the import of his main theses for different disciplines.

In Praise of Love

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1595588892
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Love written by Alain Badiou and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless

Badiou

Author : Ed Pluth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074565410X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Badiou written by Ed Pluth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Badiou is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. His ground-breaking philosophy is based on a creative reading of set theory, offering a new understanding of what it means to be human by promoting an 'intelligence of change'. Badiou's philosophical system makes our capacity for revolution and novelty central to who we are, and develops an ethical position that aims to make us less anxious about this very capacity. This book presents a comprehensive and engaging account of Badiou's philosophy, including an in-depth discussion of The Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Logics of Worlds. In a clear and careful analysis, Ed Pluth considers exactly how Badiou's theoretical 'anti-humanism' is linked up to what is, for all intents and purposes, a practical humanism. Central to this is an account of Badiou’s theory of the subject, and his attempt to develop an 'ethic of truths'. The role of set theory, Marxism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in Badiou's philosophy is also given close attention. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of philosophy, as well as to all those keen to develop a critical understanding of one of the most controversial and important thinkers of the twentieth century.

Theoretical Writings

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474234127
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Writings written by Alain Badiou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, 'the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, the chapters step the reader through his key concepts of being, subject and truth via startling re-readings of canonical figures including Spinoza, Kant and Hegel and engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics. Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

Alain Badiou

Author : Jason Barker
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745318004
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Alain Badiou written by Jason Barker and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and concise introduction to the political philosophy of Alain Badiou, centred in a political context.

Philosophy and the Event

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745653945
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Event written by Alain Badiou and published by Polity. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou’s thought. Responding to Tarby’s questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In all these domains, events occur that bring to light possibilities that were invisible or even unthinkable; they propose something to us. Everything then depends on how the possibility opened up by the event is grasped, elaborated and embedded in the world – this is what Badiou calls a ‘truth procedure’. The event creates a possibility but there then has to be an effort – a group effort in the case of politics, an individual effort in the case of love or art – for this possibility to become real and inscribed in the world. As he explains his thinking on politics, love, art and science, Badiou takes stock of his major works, reflects on their central themes and arguments and looks forward to the questions he plans to address in his future writings. The book concludes with a short introduction to Badiou’s philosophy by Fabien Tarby. For anyone wishing to understand the work of one of the most widely read and influential philosophers writing today, this small book will be an indispensable guide.

The Red Years

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781472596079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Red Years written by Alain Badiou and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Years (Les Années Rouges) features three key texts by renowned and controversial contemporary French philosopher, Alain Badiou: Theory of Contradiction, Of Ideology, and The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic. Hitherto unavailable in English, these three texts elucidate the formative role of Badiou's Maoist 'phase' – an essential moment in his political and philosophical trajectory. Furthermore, these texts are vital to any understanding of radical French thought and politics in the 1970s, and in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. The Red Years also features original essays from leading commentators Tzuchien Tho, and a concluding essay by Bruno Bosteels, which argues for the presence of Maoism in Badiou's mature thought. Badiou has also written a wholly new preface for this edition.

Theoretical Writings

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474234135
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Writings written by Alain Badiou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, 'the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, the chapters step the reader through his key concepts of being, subject and truth via startling re-readings of canonical figures including Spinoza, Kant and Hegel and engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics. Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

Being and Event

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 082649529X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Being and Event written by Alain Badiou and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou's magnum opus, and a must-have for his growing following and anyone interested in contemporary Continental thought.

Number and Numbers

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509534067
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Number and Numbers written by Alain Badiou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of number. Badiou argues that number cannot be defined by the multiform calculative uses to which numbers are put, nor is it exhausted by the various species described by number theory. Drawing on the mathematical theory of surreal numbers, he develops a unified theory of Number as a particular form of being, an infinite expanse to which our access remains limited. This understanding of Number as being harbours important philosophical truths about the structure of the world in which we live. In Badiou's view, only by rigorously thinking through Number can philosophy offer us some hope of breaking through the dense and apparently impenetrable capitalist fabric of numerical relations. For this will finally allow us to point to that which cannot be numbered: the possibility of an event that would deliver us from our unthinking subordination of number.

Badiou and Politics

Author : Bruno Bosteels
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350769
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Badiou and Politics written by Bruno Bosteels and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExamines the political thinking of French philosopher of Alain Badiou, whose theories of ontology and mathematics have set him apart from many of his post-structuralist contemporaries./div

Badiou and His Interlocutors

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350026646
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Badiou and His Interlocutors written by Alain Badiou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of history, Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original essays by young and established scholars in Australia and New Zealand addressing the key concerns of Badiou's 2015 visit to the Antipodal region and the work he presented there. With new material by Badiou previously unpublished in English this volume is a valuable overview of his recent thinking. Critical responses by distinguished and gifted Badiou scholars writing outside of the European context make this text essential reading for anyone interested in the development and contemporary reception of Badiou's thought.

Logics of Worlds

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350043028
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Logics of Worlds written by Alain Badiou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. Drawing on his most ambitious philosophical predecessors - Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze – Badiou ends this important later work with an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'.