This collection of thirteen essays engages directly with the work of Alain Badiou, focusing specifically on the philosophical content of his work and the various connections he established with both his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage.
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Badiou and Philosophy
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Philosophical CriticismTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- 1 Badiou’s Philosophical Heritage
- I. Philosophy’s Mathematical Condition
- 2 What Is Post-Cantorian Thought? Transfinitude and the Conditions of Philosophy
- 3 The Set-Theoretical Nature of Badiou’s Ontology and Lautman’s Dialectic of Problematic Ideas
- 4 Badiou’s Platonism: The Mathematical Ideas of Post-Cantorian Set Theory
- 5 Sets, Categories and Topoi: Approaches to Ontology in Badiou’s Later Work
- II. Philosophical Notions and Orientations
- 6 The Black Sheep of Materialism: The Theory of the Subject
- 7 A Critique of Alain Badiou’s Denial of Time in His Philosophy of Events
- 8 Doing Without Ontology: A Quinean Pragmatist Approach to Badiou
- 9 Towards a New Political Subject? Badiou between Marx and Althusser
- III. Philosophical Figures
- 10 ‘The Greatest of Our Dead’: Badiou and Lacan
- 11 Badiou and Sartre: Freedom, from Imagination to Chance
- 12 Badiou’s Relation to Heidegger in Theory of the Subject
- 13 One Divides into Two: Badiou’s Critique of Deleuze
- Bibliography
- Index
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