Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)

Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Abbreviations......Page 10 Introduction Alain Badiou: The Event of Thinking [Gabriel Riera]......Page 12 A PHILOSOPHY TO COME: BADIOU AND THE "END OF PHILOSOPHY"......Page 15 BADIOU'S DECISION: "MATHEMATICS = ONTOLOGY"......Page 18 MATHEMATICS' UNTHOUGHT: THE EVENT......Page 19 SUBJECTIVE INTERVENTION (POLITICS AND ETHICS)......Page 23 THINKING THROUGH BADIOU: PHILOSOPHY UNDER CONDITIONS......Page 24 NOTES......Page 30 PART ONE. MATHEMATICS = ONTOLOGY......Page 32 1. On Alain Badiou's Treatment of Category Theory in View of a Transitory Ontology [Norman Madarasz]......Page 34 ON SET AND CATEGORY THEORY AS COMPETING PARADIGMS FOR BADIOU'S THESIS ON MATHEMATICA/ONTOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION......Page 38 THE INFINITE AND THE APPEARING......Page 42 CATEGORY AND TRANSITORY ONTOLOGY......Page 46 NOTES......Page 53 2. The Ontological Dispute: Badiou, Heidegger, and Deleuze [Miguel de Beistegui]......Page 56 NOTES......Page 69 PART TWO. THE POEM......Page 70 3. For an "Ethics of Mystery": Philosophy and the Poem [Gabriel Riera]......Page 72 PHILOSOPHY UNDER CONDITIONS: THE COLDNESS OF THE MATHEME, THE HEAT OF RHETORIC......Page 75 POETIC SUTURE......Page 79 ON WOUNDS, SUTURES, AND STITCHES ('POINTS'): "A RELATION OF THE FOURTH TYPE"?......Page 83 "AU 'POINT' DE L'INNOMABLE," OR FOR AN "ETHICS OF MYSTERY"......Page 89 NOTES......Page 95 4. Unbreakable B's: From Beckett and Badiou to the Bitter End of Affirmative Ethics [Jean-Michel Rabaté]......Page 98 BADIOU'S READING PROGRAM......Page 99 THE LAW AND THE "PARADOXICAL SUPPLEMENT" OF THE EVENT......Page 102 THE TORTURE OF THE COGITO......Page 105 OF RATS, MEN, AND TERMITES......Page 108 POST-SADEAN OR POST-KANTIAN ETHICS?......Page 110 TRUTH AND JOUISSANCE......Page 114 NOTES......Page 118 5. The Mallarrné of Alain Badiou [Pierre Macherey]......Page 120 NOTE......Page 126 PART THREE. LOVE (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis)......Page 128 6. 'Gai Savoir Sera': The Science of Love and the Insolence of Chance [Joan Copjec]......Page 130 NOTES......Page 145 PROLOGUE: ON LOVE AND LAW......Page 148 OF BADIOU'S "TRUTH": BEING BEYOND LANGUAGE......Page 149 On the Uses and Abuses of Topology: Badiou, Lacan, and Freudian Psychoanalysis......Page 152 Of the Freudian Unconscious, and Badiou's......Page 162 Destruction: The Scene of the Real—and of Creative Sublimation......Page 164 Badiou and Sexuality: "Multiple Subject" against "Woman"?......Page 169 THE REGIME OF THE "WE": OR, FRATERNAL POLITICS AND THE ART OF LOVE......Page 173 On Love: La Scene du Deux......Page 178 Lacan and Topological Love?......Page 183 NOTES......Page 187 8. Feminine Love and the Pauline Universal [Tracy McNulty]......Page 196 UNITY OF THE AMOROUS TRUTH: SEXUATED CONFLICT OF THE TWO SAVOIRS......Page 198 WHY LOVE?......Page 203 WORLDLY ALTERITY AND THE TRANSCENDENT UNIVERSAL......Page 205 THE CRUSHING SYMBOLIC OF THE FATHERS: THE ANTILAW OF LOVE......Page 209 UNIVERSALISM AND EQUALITY: ONE FOR ALL......Page 215 THE FEMININE, OR "EACH AND EVERY" FOR NOT-ALL......Page 216 THE LAUGHTER OF ISRAEL......Page 219 NOTES......Page 221 PART FOUR. POLITICS AND ETHICS......Page 224 9. On the Ethics of Alain Badiou [Simon Critchley]......Page 226 THREE APPLICATIONS OF THE STRUCTURE OF ETHICAL EXPERIENCE: LEVINAS, LACAN, AND BADIOU......Page 229 THE PLACE OF ETHICS IN BADIOU'S SYSTEM......Page 232 THE LOGIC OF THE EVENT IN BADIOU—VIRTUOUSLY OR VICIOUSLY CIRCULAR?......Page 236 HOW TO DISTINGUISH A TRUE FROM A FALSE EVENT—THE QUESTION OF HEGEMONY......Page 237 LOVE AND LAW—BADIOU AND PSYCHOANALYSIS......Page 239 BECKETT AS HEROIC COMIC ANTIHERO OF BADIOU'S WORK—AGAINST TRAGEDY......Page 241 NOTES......Page 245 THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS......Page 248 THE MOTIF OF THE END......Page 249 IN THE SHADOW OF MAO......Page 252 DEVIATIONS LEFT AND RIGHT: TOWARD RADICAL PHILOSOPHY?......Page 257 LACK OR DESTRUCTION: BREAKING DOWN THE RULE OF ORDER......Page 259 EVENT OR ENCOUNTER: ALTHUSSER'S POSTHUMOUS WRITINGS......Page 260 RADICALS AND DOGMATISTS: REPLYING TO THE CRITICS......Page 261 THE SOVEREIGN EVENT?......Page 264 REDEFINING HISTORY: THE LEGACY OF MICHEL FOUCAULT......Page 266 CONDITIONS FOR PHILOSOPHY......Page 268 ON THE QUESTION OF CULTURE......Page 269 RETURN TO THE VOID......Page 271 WORKS BY ALAIN BADIOU......Page 274 SHORTER WORKS BY ALAIN BADIOU......Page 275 WORKS ON ALAIN BADIOU......Page 276 Contributors......Page 280 Index......Page 284 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. "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."--BOOK JACKET