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Badiou and the Political Condition.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Constantinou, Marios.
- Series:
- Critical Connections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Badiou, Alain--Philosophy.
- Philosophy, French--19th century.
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Local Subjects:
- Badiou, Alain--Philosophy.
- Philosophy, French--19th century.
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Other Title:
- Critical Connections
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume, including a new piece by Badiou himself, reflect the formative traditions that shape the background of his political thought. They intervene critically and evaluate the present state of Badiou's work, while also breaking new ground and creating new thresholds of political thought. It includes a range of established scholars and rising theorists of the Badiou-effect, each engaging with the critical question of 'how to transmit the exception' politically, at the intersection of contemporary anti-imperial polemics and debates that strike at the heart of the post-modern
- Contents:
- Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Crisis of Negation and the Political Condition; 1 From Logic to Anthropology: Affirmative Dialectics; 2 Conditioning Communism: Badiou, Plato and Philosophy as Meta-Critical Anamnesis; 3 The Narrative Politics of Active Number; 4 The Pascalian Wager of Politics: Remarks on Badiou and Lacan; 5 Contra Opinionem: Politics as an Anti-Imperialist Procedure; Part II: Compossibilities: Conditions of Philosophy in the Wake of Politics; 6 Reversing and Affirming the Avant-gardes: A New Paradigm for Politics
- 7 Badiou on Inaesthetics and Transitory Ontology: The Case of Political Song8 Love in the Time of the Communist Hypothesis; 9 The Politics of Comradeship: Philosophical Commitment and Construction in Alain Badiou and Slavoj ZIzek; 10 Not Solvable by Radicals: Lacan, Topology, Politics; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780748678815
- 0748678816
- OCLC:
- 1291508864
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