Malebranche : theological figure, being 2 / Alain Badiou; Kenneth Reinhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badiou, Alain, Author.

Contributor:

Reinhard, Kenneth, Editor.

Smith, Jason E.

Series:

The Seminars of Alain Badiou Series

The Seminars of Alain Badiou

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.

Malebranche, Nicolas.

Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715. Traité de la nature et de la grace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Being dos

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's 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, retracing 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 philosophy 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editors' Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou

The Seminars of Alain Badiou (1983-2016): General Preface

Introduction to the Seminar on Malebranche: Malebranche's "Political Ontology"

About the 1986 Seminar on Malebranche

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 5

Session 6

Session 7

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780231548533

0231548532

OCLC:

1060184153