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Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies (Hardcover): zekiye antakyalioglu Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies (Hardcover)
zekiye antakyalioglu; Contributions by Evrim Dogan Adanur, Basak Agin, Selen Aktari-Sevgi, Aylin Alkac, …
R2,620 Discovery Miles 26 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This volume shows that theory can reinvent theory and re-define criticism according to the demands of the new millennium. In this context, it examines new ways of considering the relation of post-theory to the concepts such as ethics, aesthetics, truth, value, authenticity, human, and reality to understand the mindset of the new century. Without disregarding or neglecting the legacy of "Theory," this volume presents the various suggestions and concerns of post-theoretical studies that reflect the sensibilities of the contemporary social and cultural life. It is a timely and relevant source of reference to those who wish to develop an understanding of this change of attitude in post-theoretical studies towards a more directly and sincerely responsive approach to the current problems worldwide, their representations in literature and language, reflections in theory, roots in socio-political domains, and effects on the material reality.

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890-1920) (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Pingyuan Chen A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890-1920) (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Pingyuan Chen
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contains a classic guide to historical study of early modern Chinese fiction from the late Qing Dynasty till early republican China. It does not merely study the new fiction writing in China, which was strongly influenced by the western fiction, but also draws a comparison between classical Chinese fiction and the early modern Chinese fiction. This book is an excellent reference in the study of early modern Chinese literature since it conveys a point of view to the readers with abundant and solid historical materials. At the heart of the book, it is the matter of a specific value in trans-cultural studies between the western world and China.

The Intermedial Experience of Horror - Suspended Failures (Hardcover): J. Toikkanen The Intermedial Experience of Horror - Suspended Failures (Hardcover)
J. Toikkanen
R2,413 R1,881 Discovery Miles 18 810 Save R532 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle. Whereas many past studies have concentrated either on establishing horror as a genre across the media or on observing horror as a catalogue of mental disturbances or collective cultural trauma, this book takes a different approach. Focusing on reading specific examples of literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the study brings together the phenomenon of horror with the topical concepts of experience and intermediality and highlights the complex relations they present. Horror is explored as an experience, one defined and brought into being by a break between the media of words and images. In literature, where images as such are frequently absent and the reader works from words alone, the experience of horror hinges on a suspended failure of the imagination.

Medieval Mobilities - Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Basil Arnould Price, Jane Elizabeth... Medieval Mobilities - Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Basil Arnould Price, Jane Elizabeth Bonsall, Meagan Khoury
R3,883 Discovery Miles 38 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, texts, images, and ideas move across physiological, geographical, literary, and spiritual boundaries. In what ways do these movements afford new configurations of gender, sexuality, and being? Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that attending to the undulations of premodern gender and sexuality may help destabilize unstated assumptions about ways of being and loving in the Middle Ages. This volume also brings together emergent and established scholars to challenge an increasingly static academy and instead envision a scholarly practice focused on intergenerational, international, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Drawing upon wide range of primary sources and theoretical frameworks, the resultant essays unsettle the imagined fixity of gender and propose alternative conceptualizations of embodiment, identity, and difference in the medieval world.

Feminine Singularity - The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Hardcover): Ronjaunee Chatterjee Feminine Singularity - The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Hardcover)
Ronjaunee Chatterjee
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity-for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful feminist theory of the subject-and shows us paths to thinking subjectivity, race, and gender anew in literature and in our wider social world. Through fresh, sophisticated readings of Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, and Wilkie Collins in conversation with psychoanalysis, Black feminist and queer-of-color theory, and continental philosophy, Ronjaunee Chatterjee uncovers a lexicon of feminine singularity that manifests across poetry and prose through likeness and minimal difference, rather than individuality and identity. Reading for singularity shows us the ways femininity is fundamentally entangled with racial difference in the nineteenth century and well into the contemporary, as well as how rigid categories can be unsettled and upended. Grappling with the ongoing violence embedded in the Western liberal imaginary, Feminine Singularity invites readers to commune with the subversive potentials in nineteenth-century literature for thinking subjectivity today.

Spatial Plots - Virtuality and the Embodied Mind in Baricco, Camilleri and Calvino (Hardcover): Marzia Beltrami Spatial Plots - Virtuality and the Embodied Mind in Baricco, Camilleri and Calvino (Hardcover)
Marzia Beltrami
R2,589 Discovery Miles 25 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Re-Reading Leavis - Culture and Literary Criticism (Hardcover, 1996 ed.): G. Day Re-Reading Leavis - Culture and Literary Criticism (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
G. Day
R2,894 Discovery Miles 28 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a much needed reassessment of F.R. Leavis. Gary Day argues that post-structuralist theory has defined itself in opposition to Leavis when in fact there are certain parallels between the two types of criticism. Day also draws attention to the connections between Leavis's early work and the emergent discourses of consumerism and scientific management. In particular he notes how at the centre of each is an image of the body and he analyses what this means for Leavis's conception of reading. By situating Leavis in relation to the concerns of post-structuralism and by locating him firmly in his historical context, Day is able to chart how far criticism can justly claim to be oppositional. At the same time, Day is able to recuperate from Leavis's work a notion of value; a topic which is becoming increasingly important in literary and cultural studies today.

Literature and Skepticism (Paperback): Pablo Oyarzun Literature and Skepticism (Paperback)
Pablo Oyarzun
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Women of Faith in Victorian Culture - Reassessing the 'Angel in the House' (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): Andrew Bradstock Women of Faith in Victorian Culture - Reassessing the 'Angel in the House' (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Andrew Bradstock; Edited by Anne Hogan
R2,876 Discovery Miles 28 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, biographers and other writers depicted religious women, with special reference to the influence of the ideal of the "Angel in the House" as embodied in Coventry Patmores's poem of that name. Among those whose worked is explored are George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, George Moore and Anne Brontë, as well as hymnwriters, missionary biographers, non-conformists obituarists and artists of the Aesthetic Movement.

Tractatus in Context - The Essential Background for Appreciating Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus... Tractatus in Context - The Essential Background for Appreciating Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Paperback)
James C. Klagge
R1,449 Discovery Miles 14 490 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Ludwig Wittgenstein's brief Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) is one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, yet it offers little orientation for the reader. The first-time reader is left wondering what it could be about, and the scholar is left with little guidance for interpretation. In Tractatus in Context, James C. Klagge presents the vital background necessary for appreciating Wittgenstein's gnomic masterpiece. Tractatus in Context contains the early reactions to the Tractatus, including the initial reviews written in 1922-1924. And while we can't talk with Wittgenstein, we can do the next best thing-hear what he had to say about the Tractatus. Klagge thus presents what Wittgenstein thought about germane issues leading up to his writing the book, in discussions and correspondence with others about his ideas, and what he had to say about the Tractatus after it was written-in letters, lectures and conversations. It offers, you might say, Wittgenstein's own commentary on the book. Key Features: Illuminates what is at stake in the Tractatus, by providing the views of others that engaged Wittgenstein as he was writing it. Includes Wittgenstein's earlier thoughts on ideas in the book as recorded in his notebooks, letters, and conversations as well as his later, retrospective comments on those ideas. Draws on new or little-known sources, such as Wittgenstein's coded notebooks, Hermine's notes, Frege's letters, Hansel's diary, Ramsey's notes, and Skinner's dictations. Draws connections between the background context and specific passages in the Tractatus, using a proposition-by-proposition commentary.

Objects of Affection - The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England (Hardcover): Myra Seaman Objects of Affection - The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
Myra Seaman
R2,489 Discovery Miles 24 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book's pages - human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible - collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript's material appeal in the ways it binds itself to different cultural, historical and material environments. In doing so it traces the affective literacy training that the manuscript provided its late-medieval English household, whose diverse inhabitants are incorporated into the ecology of the book itself as it fashions spiritually generous and socially mindful household members. -- .

George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Michael P. Cohen George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Michael P. Cohen
R2,906 Discovery Miles 29 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926-September 8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of evolutionary theory and history are the most important nature writing of recent times. What it means to be scientifically literate-is essential for humanistic scholars, who must ground themselves with literary reading of scientific texts. As the most influential American evolutionary theorist of the second half of the twentieth century, Williams masters critique, frames questions about adaptation and natural selection, and answers in a plain, aphoristic writing style. Williams aims for parsimony-to "recognize adaptation at the level necessitated by the facts and no higher"-through a minimalist writing style. This voice articulates a powerful process that operates at very low levels by blind and selfish chance at the expense of its designed products, using purely trial and error.

Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 - Treacherous Objects, Secret Places (Hardcover): M. Pittock Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 - Treacherous Objects, Secret Places (Hardcover)
M. Pittock
R3,836 Discovery Miles 38 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the eighteenth century. Challenging existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture, it argues that the birth of modern Britain was accompanied by political repression which helped develop a counter-culture of treacherous objects and secret societies. Though set in the Jacobite period in the British Isles, it considers transnational evidence and sets out an approach which can be applied in a wide variety of other contexts.

Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Maria-Daniella Dick, Robbie... Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Maria-Daniella Dick, Robbie McLaughlan
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory proposes that late Freudian theory has had an historical influence on the configuration of contemporary life and is central to the construction of twenty-first-century capitalism. This book investigates how we continue to live in the Freudian century, turning its attentions to specific crisis points within neoliberalism-the rise of figures like Trump, the development of social media as a new superego force, the economics that underpin the wellness and self-care industries as well as the contemporary consumption of popular culture-to maintain the continued historical importance of Freudian thought in all its dimensions. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, literary theory, cultural studies, and political theory, this book assesses the contribution that an historical and theoretical consideration of the late Freud can make to analyzing certain aspects of late capital.

Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject' (Paperback):... Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject' (Paperback)
Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook, Calum Neill
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan's Ecrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Ecrits to be published in English. An invaluable document in the history of psychoanalysis, and one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century, Lacan's Ecrits still today begs the interpretative engagement of clinicians, scholars, philosophers and cultural theorists. The three volumes of Reading Lacan's Ecrits offer just this: a series of systematic paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries - by some of the world's most renowned Lacanian analysts and scholars - on the complete edition of the Ecrits, inclusive of lesser known articles such as 'Kant with Sade', 'The Youth of Gide', 'Science and Truth', 'Presentation on Transference' and 'Beyond the "Reality Principle". The originality and importance of Lacan's Ecrits to psychoanalysis and intellectual history is matched only by the text's notorious inaccessibility. Reading Lacan's Ecrits is an indispensable companion piece and reference-text for clinicians and scholars exploring Lacan's magnum opus. Not only does it contextualize, explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments, it provides multiple interpretative routes through this most labyrinthine of texts. Reading Lacan's Ecrits provides an incisive and accessible companion for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice, as well as philosophers, cultural theorists and literary, social science and humanities researchers who wish to draw upon Lacan's pivotal work.

The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction - Who's Laughing Now? (Hardcover): Huw Marsh The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction - Who's Laughing Now? (Hardcover)
Huw Marsh
R3,554 Discovery Miles 35 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty, melancholia, environmental catastrophe and collapse, Huw Marsh argues that contemporary fiction is as likely to treat these subjects comically as it is to treat them gravely, and that the recognition and proper analysis of this humour opens up new ways to think about literature. Structured around readings of authors including Martin Amis, Nicola Barker, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Howard Jacobson, Magnus Mills and Zadie Smith, this book suggests not only that much of the most interesting contemporary writing is funny and that there is a comic tendency in contemporary fiction, but also that this humour, this comic licence, allows writers of contemporary fiction to do peculiar and interesting things - things that are funny in the sense of odd or strange and that may in turn inspire a funny turn in readers. Marsh offers a series of original critical and theoretical frameworks for discussing questions of literary genre, style, affect and politics, demonstrating that comedy is an often neglected mode that plays a generative role in much of the most interesting contemporary writing, creating sites of rich political, stylistic, cognitive and ethical contestation whose analysis offers a new perspective on the present.

The Turn of the Century/Le tournant du siecle - Modernism and Modernity in Literature and the Arts/Le modernisme et la... The Turn of the Century/Le tournant du siecle - Modernism and Modernity in Literature and the Arts/Le modernisme et la modernite dans la litterature et les arts (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Christian Berg, Frank Durieux, Geert Lernout
R5,971 Discovery Miles 59 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Afterlife of Moses - Exile, Democracy, Renewal (Hardcover): Michael Steinberg The Afterlife of Moses - Exile, Democracy, Renewal (Hardcover)
Michael Steinberg
R1,983 Discovery Miles 19 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics-of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of the story of Moses, from Michelangelo to Spinoza to Freud to Schoenberg to Derrida, have seized on the story's ambivalences, its critical and self-critical power. These literal returns form the first level of the afterlife of Moses. They spin a persistent critical and self-critical thread of European and transatlantic art and argument. And they enable the second strand of Steinberg's argument, namely the depersonalization of the Moses and Exodus story, its evolving abstraction and modulation into a varied modern history of political beginnings. Beginnings, as distinct from origins, are human and historical, writes Steinberg. Political constitutions, as a form of beginning, imply the eventuality of their own renewals and their own reconstitutions. Motivated in part by recent reactionary insurgencies in the US, Europe, and Israel, this astute work of intellectual history posits the critique of myths of origin as a key principle of democratic government, affect, and citizenship, of their endurance as well as their fragility.

Reading Baudelaire with Adorno - Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence (Hardcover): Joseph Acquisto Reading Baudelaire with Adorno - Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence (Hardcover)
Joseph Acquisto
R2,852 Discovery Miles 28 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Comic Event - Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Hardcover): Judith Roof The Comic Event - Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Hardcover)
Judith Roof
R4,236 Discovery Miles 42 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an "event" that triggers, by virtue of a "cut," an expected/unexpected resolution. Using examples from mainstream comedy, The Comic Event progresses from the smallest comic moment-jokes, bits-to the more complex-caricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise "Laughter," Sigmund Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering event that resolves with a "cut," Roof characterizes comedy not only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden expected/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality, self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and aspects of performance in multiple contexts.

William Faulkner and Mortality - A Fine Dead Sound (Hardcover): Ahmed Honeini William Faulkner and Mortality - A Fine Dead Sound (Hardcover)
Ahmed Honeini
R4,389 Discovery Miles 43 890 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner's fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner's work that claimed that writing was his authorial method of 'saying No to death'. Through close-readings of six key works - The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, "A Rose for Emily", Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses - this book examines how Faulkner's characters confront various experiences of human mortality, including grief, bereavement, mourning, and violence. The trauma and ambivalence caused by these experiences ultimately compel these characters to 'say Yes to death'. The book makes a clear distinction between Faulkner's quest for literary immortality through writing and the desire for death exhibited by the principal characters in the works analysed. William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound offers a new paradigm for reading Faulkner's oeuvre, and adds an alternative voice to a debate within Faulkner scholarship long thought to have ended.

Red Modernism - American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (Hardcover): Mark Steven Red Modernism - American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (Hardcover)
Mark Steven
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned-and aesthetically responsive-to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto underexplored domain in the political history of avant-garde literature. In doing so, Steven amplifies the resonance among the universal idea of communism, the revolutionary socialist state, and the American modernist poem. Focusing on three of the most significant figures in modernist poetry-Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky-Steven provides a theoretical and historical introduction to modernism's unique sense of communism while revealing how communist ideals and references were deeply embedded in modernist poetry. Moving between these poets and the work of T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and many others, the book combines a detailed analysis of technical devices and poetic values with a rich political and economic context. Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.

Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Joseph Bristow, Josephine McDonagh Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Joseph Bristow, Josephine McDonagh
R3,167 Discovery Miles 31 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures - popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists - writers shared a commitment to exploring the potential of literature as a medium in which to imagine new and better worlds. The essays in this volume ask how we should understand these interventions and what are their legacies in the twentieth and twenty first centuries? Inspired by the work of the radical literary scholar, the late Sally Ledger, this volume provides a commentary on the political traditions that underpin the literature of this complex period, and examines the interpretive methods that are needed to understand them. This timely book contributes to our appreciation of the radical traditions that underpin our literary past.

Narcissism and the Literary Libido - Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (Hardcover, New): Marshall W. Alcorn Jr Narcissism and the Literary Libido - Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (Hardcover, New)
Marshall W. Alcorn Jr
R3,096 Discovery Miles 30 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. Synthesizing the ideas of theorists as diverse as Aristotle and Althusser, Kohut and Derrida, Alcorn explores the relationships between language and subjectivity. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Arthur Miller, D. H. Lawrence, Ben Jonson, George Orwell, and others are the basis of this thoughtful analysis of the rhetorical resources of literary language. Using Freudian, post-Freudian, and Lacanian theory, Alcorn Investigates the power by means of which literary texts are able to fashion new and distinctly rhetorical experiences for readers. He shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love, and also shows how the reader's interest in these texts is directed by libidinal investment. Psychoanalysts, psychologists, and lovers of literature will enjoy Alcorn's diverse and far-reaching insights into classic and contemporary writers and thinkers.

Badiou by Badiou (Hardcover): Alain Badiou Badiou by Badiou (Hardcover)
Alain Badiou; Translated by Bruno Bosteels
R1,766 Discovery Miles 17 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concepts and major preoccupations of Badiou's philosophy: fundamental ontology, mathematics, politics, poetry, and love. Well-chosen examples illuminate his thinking in regards to being and universality, worlds and singularity, and the infinite and the absolute, among other topics. A veritable tour de force of pedagogical clarity, this new student-friendly work is perhaps the single best general introduction to the work of this prolific and committed thinker. If, for Badiou, the task of philosophy consists in thinking through the truths of our time, the texts collected in this small volume could not be timelier.

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