Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity

Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9781666931051
ISBN-13 : 1666931055
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity by : Mohammad Reza Naderi

In Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou, Mohammad Reza Naderi elaborates on the trajectory of Alain Badiou’s philosophy by following a leading thread: the dominance of axiomatic thought and the category of mathematical infinity. According to this primary proposition, axiomatic thought is the only form of thinking adequate to the infinity of being. Using both primary and secondary literature, the author demonstrates two other major propositions: 1) The coherence of Badiou’s intellectual development from the early interventions to the publication of Being and Event, and 2) The formation of a theory Naderi calls “discipline.” By working through three dimensions of disciplinary thinking—interiority, novelty, and beginning—Naderi provides a new framework for understanding the inner structure of what Badiou calls “procedures of truths” and develops a new interpretation that ultimately reveals the inner logic of Badiou’s method.

Badiou and Hegel

Badiou and Hegel
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9780739199909
ISBN-13 : 0739199900
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Badiou and Hegel by : Jim Vernon

Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel. Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss the relationship between the thinkers, creating a multifarious collection of essays by Hegelians, Badiouans, and those sympathetic to both. The text privileges neither thinker, nor any particular topic shared between them; rather, this book lays a broad and sound foundation for future scholarship on arguably two of the greatest thinkers of infinity, universality, subjectivity, and the enduring value of philosophy in the modern Western canon. Assuredly overdue, this volume will attract Hegel and Badiou scholars, as well as those interested in post-structuralism, political philosophy, cultural studies, ontology, philosophy of mathematics, and psychoanalysis.

Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity

Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1666931047
ISBN-13 : 9781666931044
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity by : Mohammad Reza Naderi

This book focuses on the three main categories of Badiou's philosophy--being, truth, and subject-- which are elaborated according to three encounters: structure, real, and mathematical infinity. It articulates an underlying theory, "discipline," constituted based on these encounters, which reveals the inner logic of Badiou's method.

Being and Event

Being and Event
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 561
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ISBN-10 : 9780826495297
ISBN-13 : 082649529X
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Being and Event by : Alain Badiou

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.

Ethics

Ethics
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781781680308
ISBN-13 : 1781680302
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethics by : Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.

Badiou and Derrida

Badiou and Derrida
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 147
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ISBN-10 : 9781441158956
ISBN-13 : 1441158952
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Badiou and Derrida by : Antonio Calcagno

This exciting new book makes a major contribution to Continental philosophy, bringing together for the first time the crucial work on politics by two giants of contemporary French philosophy, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou. Derrida has long been recognised as one of the most influential and indeed controversial thinkers in contemporary philosophy and Badiou is fast emerging as a central figure in French thought, as well as in Anglo-American philosophy - his magnum opus, Being and Event, and its long-awaited sequel, Logics of Worlds, have confirmed his position as one of the most significant thinkers working in philosophy today. Both philosophers have devoted a substantial amount of their oeuvre to politics and the question of the nature of the political. Here Antonio Calcagno shows how the political views of these two major thinkers diverge and converge, thus providing a comprehensive exposition of their respective political systems. Both Badiou and Derrida give the event a central role in structuring politics and political thinking and Calcagno advances a theory about the relationship between political events and time that can account for both political undecidability and decidability. This book navigates some very intriguing developments in Continental thought and offers a clear and fascinating account of the political theories of two major contemporary thinkers.

On the Production of Subjectivity

On the Production of Subjectivity
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9781137032676
ISBN-13 : 1137032677
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis On the Production of Subjectivity by : S. O'Sullivan

This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping out of the contours for a speculative and pragmatic production of subjectivity.

Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy

Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781350069954
ISBN-13 : 1350069957
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy by : Jan Völker

The oeuvre of Alain Badiou has gained international success and recognition, but most of the secondary literature focuses on internal problems of Badiou's philosophy, rather than its position within a broader philosophical genealogy. This book unites philosophers from Germany, Slovenia, the UK, Australia and France, to trace the relation between elements of Badiou's philosophy and the German philosophical tradition, namely the three significant movements of German Idealism, Phenomenology, Marxism and the Frankfurt School. This is a discussion that has not yet been established, although the parallels and decisive differences between poststructuralist French philosophy and German philosophy are apparent. Through these paradigms – Badiou's reception of German Idealism, Marxism, Adorno and the Critical Theory, and Heideggerian phenomenology – the authors shed light onto Badiou's inheritance of and engagement with these specific traditions, but also highlight the links between these philosophies to open up new questions for contemporary continental thought. With an original chapter from Alain Badiou himself, looking back at his influences and antagonisms within the German tradition, this book is essential for readers interested in the exploration of Badiou's legacy. It illustrates the continuation of poststructuralist philosophy, Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, assessing the place of classic continental philosophy to tackle how we might benefit from these intellectual exchanges today.

Logics of Worlds

Logics of Worlds
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 599
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ISBN-10 : 9781350043022
ISBN-13 : 1350043028
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Logics of Worlds by : Alain Badiou

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'.

Badiou

Badiou
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 508
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ISBN-10 : 1452904502
ISBN-13 : 9781452904504
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Badiou by : Peter Hallward