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Badiou's ontology of the present / Michael Hauser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hauser, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Badiou, Alain.
- Neoliberalism.
- Postmodernism.
- Social change--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Social change--History--21st century.
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- Summary:
- Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of but departing from those two towering modes of late 20th-century culture. Seen in this light, the preoccupation of populism, identity politics, hybrid wars and other contemporary phenomena can be seen as the result of the disintegration of neoliberal agendas and postmodernist sensibilities. Drawing together a vast range of thinkers and theoretical models, from Gramsci to Jameson, Hauser traces the reasons for the decline and demise of the grand narratives of the twentieth century and the ideologies that replaced them. His explanation of the foundational 'epicycloid' and disintegrative 'elliptical' stages of political movements then lays the ground for a deep engagement with Alain Badiou, understanding his 'transitory ontology' as a philosophical response to our interregnum. By expanding and unpicking Badiou's thoughts on mathematics, politics, art, love, and the conditions of doing philosophy, we can imagine a point beyond the present moment in history.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction: An Emancipatory Meaning of Generalization and the Prehistory of the Interregnum
- Part I: An Eccentric Interregnum
- 1. The Epicycloid Period (1989-2000/2008)
- 2. The Elliptical Period (2000/2008-present)
- Part II: Badiou's Transitory Ontology
- 3. Situating Badiou in the Interregnum
- 4. The Philosophical Exodus from the Interregnum
- 5. The Interregnum as the Age of Absoluteness
- ISBN:
- 1-350-43786-7
- 1-350-43788-3
- 9781350437869
- OCLC:
- 1520506499
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