Badiou and Politics

Name: Badiou and Politics
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ISBN: 9780822350767

ISBN-10: 0822350769

ISBN-13: 9780822350767

Edition: 2011

Authors: Bruno Bosteels

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Badiou and Politicsoffers a much-anticipated 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, Bruno Bosteels reveals Badiou's deep and ongoing investment in the dialectic. Bosteels draws on all of Badiou's writings, from the philosopher's student days in the 1960s to the present, as well as on Badiou's exchanges with other thinkers, from his avowed ;masters ; Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, to interlocutors including Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, Daniel Bensaïd, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler.…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosphie in Paris.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Elements of Dialectical Materialism



The Absent Cause



Lack and Destruction



One Divides into Two



The Ontological Impasse



Forcing the Truth



Logics of Change



From Potentiality to Inexistence



For Lack of Politics


Conclusion: The Speculative Left


In Dialogue with Alain Badiou



Can Change Be Thought?



Beyond Formalization


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index