Malebranche, theological figure, being 2 / Alain Badiou ; translated by Jason E. Smith with Susan Spitzer ; introduction by Jason E. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badiou, Alain, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Jason E., translator, writer of introduction.

Spitzer, Susan, translator.

Series:

Seminars of Alain Badiou

The seminars of Alain Badiou

Standardized Title:

Malebranche, figure théologique, 1986. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.

Malebranche, Nicolas.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 193 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

Alain Badiou is perhaps the worlds' most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz. The seminar is at once a record of Badiou's thought at a key moment in the years before the publication of his most important work, "Being and Event," and a lively interrogation of Malebranche's key text, the "Treatise on Nature and Grace." Badiou develops a rigorous yet novel analysis of Malebranche's theory of grace, retracting his claims regarding the nature of creation and the relation between God and world and between God and Jesus. Through Malebranche, Badiou develops a radical concept of truth and the subject. This book renders a seemingly obscure post-Cartesian philosopher fascinating and alive, restoring him to the philosophical canon. it occupies a pivotal place in Badiou's reflections on the nature of being that demonstrates the crucial role of theology in his thinking.

Contents:

Editors' introduction to the English edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou

Author's general preface to the English edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou

Introduction to the seminar on Malebranche: Malebranche's "political ontology" / Jason E. Smith

About the 1986 Seminar on Malebranche

Session 1 - Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Session 5

Session 6

Session 7

Notes

Index.

Notes:

"First published in French as Le Séminaire--Malebranche: L'Être. 2-- Figure théologique (1986) C2013 Librairie Arthème Fayard".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Badiou, Alain. Malebranche, theological figure, being 2.

ISBN:

9780231174787

0231174780

OCLC:

1060181236