Badiou : a subject to truth / Peter Hallward ; foreword by Slavojiek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hallward, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Badiou, Alain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alain Badiou is one of the most inventive and compelling philosophers working in France today-a thinker who, in these days of cynical resignation and academic specialization, is exceptional in every sense. Guided by disciplines ranging from mathematics to psychoanalysis, inspired as much by Plato and Cantor as by Mao and Mallarmé, Badiou's work renews, in the most varied and spectacular terms, a decidedly ancient understanding of philosophy-philosophy as a practice conditioned by truths, understood as militant processes of emancipation or transformation. This book is the first com

Contents:

Taking sides

From Maoism to l'organisation politique

Infinite by prescription : the mathematical turn

Badiou's ontology

Subject and event

The criteria of truth

Love and sexual difference

Art and poetry

Mathematics and science

Politics : equality and justice

What is philosophy?

Ethics, evil, and the unnameable

Generic or specific?

Being-there : the onto-logy of appearing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-451) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9084-7

OCLC:

614925415