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Alain Badiou is one of the world's most influential living
philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of
argument and reference or his ability to intervene in debates
critical to both analytic and continental philosophy. Alain Badiou:
Key Concepts presents an overview of and introduction to the full
range of Badiou's thinking. Contributors focus on the foundations
of Badiou's thought, his "key concepts" - truth, being, ontology,
the subject, and conditions - and on his engagement with a range of
thinkers central to his philosophy, including Plato, Spinoza,
Heidegger, and Deleuze. Students new to Badiou will find this work,
written by the key scholars in the field, accessible and
comprehensive, while readers already familiar with Badiou will find
detailed, focused, and innovative discussions of Badiou's key
themes, concepts, and engagements.
Alain Badiou is one of the world's most influential living
philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of
argument and reference or his ability to intervene in debates
critical to both analytic and continental philosophy. Alain Badiou:
Key Concepts presents an overview of and introduction to the full
range of Badiou's thinking. Contributors focus on the foundations
of Badiou's thought, his "key concepts" - truth, being, ontology,
the subject, and conditions - and on his engagement with a range of
thinkers central to his philosophy, including Plato, Spinoza,
Heidegger, and Deleuze. Students new to Badiou will find this work,
written by the key scholars in the field, accessible and
comprehensive, while readers already familiar with Badiou will find
detailed, focused, and innovative discussions of Badiou's key
themes, concepts, and engagements.
What is education? This volume collects some of the foremost voices
in contemporary thought to think through this question from their
unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of
a new engagement with the question of education, it provides fresh
insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to
be done about it. At a time when education is so important as to be
considered an essential 'human right', and yet is under attack from
funding cuts, government policies and fundamentalists, this book
will open the thinking on education onto new and important
territory.
This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences
from Badiou's claim that his work is a 'Platonism of the multiple'
and that philosophy today requires a 'platonic gesture'. Examining
the relationship between Badiou and Plato, Bartlett radically
transforms our perception of Plato's philosophy and rethinks the
central philosophical question: 'what is education?'
An interrogation of Plato's entire work using the concepts and
categories of Alain Badiou This is the first book to critically
address and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is
a 'Platonism of the multiple' and that philosophy today requires a
'platonic gesture'. Examining the relationship between Badiou and
Plato, Bartlett radically transforms our perception of Plato's
philosophy and rethinks the central philosophical question: 'what
is education?' Key features o Corrects many errors in the existing
commentary on Badiou's work o Extracts a key Platonic theme crucial
at every level of culture today: education
What is education? This volume collects some of the foremost voices
in contemporary thought to think through this question from their
unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of
a new engagement with the question of education, it provides fresh
insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to
be done about it. At a time when education is so important as to be
considered an essential 'human right', and yet is under attack from
funding cuts, government policies and fundamentalists, this book
will open the thinking on education onto new and important
territory.
Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves
become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the
current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it.
Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin with
dismantling the obscene (or pornographic) qualities of neoliberal
capitalism. In The Pornographic Age he asks us to hold up a mirror
to ourselves and confront the debasement of the political realities
in which we live, the shock of which must galvanize us into action.
It is only through this realization, this crucial confrontation
with the perversity with which we conduct our daily lives that we
can prompt true revolution. Including an afterword from
international Badiou scholars A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens and
a commentary by William Watkin, this book is a philosophical call
to arms: Badiou's radical indictment of the current age is an
exciting, no-holds-barred exploration of both how we live and how
we might live.
In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly
works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory,
demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation
and distinction from Set Theory, and the 'thinking of being'. In
doing so he sets out the basic onto-logical requirements of his
greater and transcendental logics as articulated in his magnum
opus, Logics of Worlds. This important book combines both his
elaboration of the disjunctive synthesis between ontology and
onto-logy (the discourses of being as such and being-appearing)
from the perspective of Category Theory and the categorial basis of
his philosophical conception of 'being there'.Hitherto unpublished
in either French or English, Mathematics of the Transcendental
provides Badiou's readers with a much-needed complete elaboration
of his understanding and use of Category Theory. The book is an
essential aid to understanding the mathematical and logical basis
of his theory of appearing as elaborated in Logics of Worlds and
other works and is essential reading for his many followers.
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and
commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three
lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema
and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou - one
concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide
ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It
also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by
established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of
history, Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original
essays by young and established scholars in Australia and New
Zealand addressing the key concerns of Badiou's 2015 visit to the
Antipodal region and the work he presented there. With new material
by Badiou previously unpublished in English this volume is a
valuable overview of his recent thinking. Critical responses by
distinguished and gifted Badiou scholars writing outside of the
European context make this text essential reading for anyone
interested in the development and contemporary reception of
Badiou's thought.
Following the publication of his magnum opus L'etre et l'evenement
(Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed as one
of France's greatest living philosophers. Since then, he has
released a dozen books, including Manifesto for Philosophy,
Conditions, Metapolitics and Logiques des mondes (Logics of
Worlds), many of which are now available in English translation.
Badiou writes on an extraordinary array of topics, and his work has
already had an impact upon studies in the history of philosophy,
the history and philosophy of science, political philosophy,
aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and ontology. This volume takes up the
challenge of explicating, extending and, in many places,
criticizing Badiou's stunningly original theses. Above all, the
essays collected here put Badiou's concepts to the test in a
confrontation with the four great headings that he himself has
identified as essential to our humanity: science, love, art and
politics. Many of the contributors have already been recognized as
outstanding translators of and commentators on Badiou's work; they
appear here with fresh voices also destined to make a mark.
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Happiness (Paperback)
Alain Badiou; Translated by A., J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens
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'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it's not worth
an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention
into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is
happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The desire to be
happy is one of our most universal goals and yet there doesn't seem
to be any easy answers or formulas for achieving happiness. And the
concept has become so commodified and corrupted to be almost
unrecognizable as something worth pursuing. In light of this,
should we just give up the aspiration to be happy altogether? Alain
Badiou thinks not. While eschewing futile procedures for magically
becoming 'happy', Badiou does passionately maintain that in order
to be truly happy we need philosophy. And, bolder still, that a
life lived philosophically is the happiest life of all!
Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves
become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the
current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it.
Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin with
dismantling the obscene (or pornographic) qualities of neoliberal
capitalism. In The Pornographic Age he asks us to hold up a mirror
to ourselves and confront the debasement of the political realities
in which we live, the shock of which must galvanize us into action.
It is only through this realization, this crucial confrontation
with the perversity with which we conduct our daily lives that we
can prompt true revolution. Including an afterword from
international Badiou scholars A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens and
a commentary by William Watkin, this book is a philosophical call
to arms: Badiou's radical indictment of the current age is an
exciting, no-holds-barred exploration of both how we live and how
we might live.
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Happiness (Hardcover)
Alain Badiou; Translated by A., J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens
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R2,662
Discovery Miles 26 620
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it's not worth
an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention
into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is
happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The desire to be
happy is one of our most universal goals and yet there doesn't seem
to be any easy answers or formulas for achieving happiness. And the
concept has become so commodified and corrupted to be almost
unrecognizable as something worth pursuing. In light of this,
should we just give up the aspiration to be happy altogether? Alain
Badiou thinks not. While eschewing futile procedures for magically
becoming 'happy', Badiou does passionately maintain that in order
to be truly happy we need philosophy. And, bolder still, that a
life lived philosophically is the happiest life of all!
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and
commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three
lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema
and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou - one
concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide
ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It
also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by
established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of
history, Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original
essays by young and established scholars in Australia and New
Zealand addressing the key concerns of Badiou's 2015 visit to the
Antipodal region and the work he presented there. With new material
by Badiou previously unpublished in English this volume is a
valuable overview of his recent thinking. Critical responses by
distinguished and gifted Badiou scholars writing outside of the
European context make this text essential reading for anyone
interested in the development and contemporary reception of
Badiou's thought.
Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers
critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the
Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel.
Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and
emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss the
relationship between the thinkers, creating a multifarious
collection of essays by Hegelians, Badiouans, and those sympathetic
to both. The text privileges neither thinker, nor any particular
topic shared between them; rather, this book lays a broad and sound
foundation for future scholarship on arguably two of the greatest
thinkers of infinity, universality, subjectivity, and the enduring
value of philosophy in the modern Western canon. Assuredly overdue,
this volume will attract Hegel and Badiou scholars, as well as
those interested in post-structuralism, political philosophy,
cultural studies, ontology, philosophy of mathematics, and
psychoanalysis.
Presents a critical intervention into the key conceptual
dissensions between contemporary Continental philosophy's three
most influential thinkers. The writings of Lacan, Deleuze and
Badiou stand at the heart of contemporary thought. While the
collective corpus of these three figures contains a significant
number of references to each other's work, these are often simply
critical, obscure, or both. Lacan Deleuze Badiou guides academics
working philosophy, psychoanalysis and critical theory through the
sensitive moments in their respective work and identifies the
passages, connections and disjunctions that underlie the often
superficial statements of critique, indifference or accord. The
first book to examine Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou together;
reconstructs a fundamental conceptual history of Badiou, Deleuze
and Lacan's influences and intellectual context; it identifies and
examines the key themes in contemporary European thought: the
event, time and truth and shows how Deleuze and Badiou have
followed and contravened the Lacanian intervention without
reverting to pre Lacanian positions.
Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers
critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the
Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel.
Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and
emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss the
relationship between the thinkers, creating a multifarious
collection of essays by Hegelians, Badiouans, and those sympathetic
to both. The text privileges neither thinker, nor any particular
topic shared between them; rather, this book lays a broad and sound
foundation for future scholarship on arguably two of the greatest
thinkers of infinity, universality, subjectivity, and the enduring
value of philosophy in the modern Western canon. Assuredly overdue,
this volume will attract Hegel and Badiou scholars, as well as
those interested in post-structuralism, political philosophy,
cultural studies, ontology, philosophy of mathematics, and
psychoanalysis.
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