Conditions / Alain Badiou ; translated by Steven Corcoran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badiou, Alain.

Standardized Title:

Conditions. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alain Badiou is without doubt the most important and influential thinker working in European philosophy today. Conditions is the first major collection of essays written after Being and Event , his extraordinary magnum opus . Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', the book goes on to propose a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state. The essays that follow are ordered according to what Badiou sees as the four great conditions of philosophy: philosophy and poetry, philosophy and mat

Contents:

The subtractive : preface / Francois Wahl

The (re)turn of philosophy itself

Definition of philosophy

What is a philosophical institution? or address, transmission, inscription

The philosophical recourse to the poem

Mallarme's method : subtraction and isolation

Rimbaud's method : interruption

Philosophy and mathematics

On subtraction

Truth : forcing and unnameable

Philosophy and politics

What is love?

Philosophy and psychoanalysis

The subject and infinite

Antiphilosophy : Lacan and Plato

Writing of the generic : Samuel Beckett.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612876943

9781441178411

1441178414

9781282876941

1282876945

9781441194220

1441194223

OCLC:

676700189