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Alain Badiou
Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism…
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Explores the link between mathematics and ontology.
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Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
Presents a comprehensive overview of Alain Badiou’s ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou’s controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from…
Contra those proclaiming the end of philosophy, Badiou aims to restore philosophical thought to the complete space of the truths that condition it.
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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? In Number and…
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This volume presents a new proposal for the link between philosophy and art. Badiou identifies and rejects the three schemes of didacticism, romanticism, and classicism that he sees as having…
Major Lacanian theorists and practitioners provide an introduction to and critique of Jacques Lacan’s influential Seminar XVII
This collection of essays seeks to explore Agamben’s work from philosophical and literary perspectives, thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.
Justin Clemens
Plunges into a violent and surreal world from which the last traces of the gods have vanished. This book features such creatures as mouthers, pokers, the sucking lady, white curls…
Takes up the challenge of explicating, extending and, in many places, criticizing Alain Badiou’s, one of France’s greatest living philosophers, stunningly original theses. Above all, the essays collected here put…
