Badiou and the Political Condition

by Constantinou, Marios

• ISBN13: 9780748678808
• ISBN10: 0748678808
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-03-28
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Marios Constantinou received his PhD from The New School for Social Research in New York. He is currently an independent researcher. He has edited 2 journal special issues, Space and Event (special issue on Badiou) for the journal Environment and Planning, Pion Publications, 2009 and Imperial Affect for Parallax (Routledge, 2012). He has also contributed numerous chapters in books on the work of Alain Badiou.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Forcing Politics: Badiou's Anabasis In the Age of Empire
Marios Constantinou

Part I: The Crisis of Negation And The Political Condition

1. From Logic to Anthropology: Affirmative Dialectics
Alain Badiou

2. Conditioning Communism: Badiou, Plato and Philosophy as Meta-Critical Anamnesis
Frank Ruda

3. The Narrative Politics of Active Number
Ed Pluth

4. The Pascalian Wager of Politics: Remarks on Badiou and Lacan
Dominiek Hoens

5. Contra Opinionem: Politics as an Anti-Imperialist Procedure
Marios Constantinou

Part II: Compossibilities: Conditions of Philosophy in the Wake of Politics

6. Reversing and Affirming the Avant-Gardes: A New Paradigm for Politics
Jan Voelker

7. Badiou on Inaesthetics and Transitory Ontology: The Case of Political Song
Christopher Norris

8. Love in the Time of the Communist Hypothesis
Norman Madarasz

9. The Politics of Comradeship: Philosophical Commitment and Construction in Alain Badiou and Slavoj %Zi%zek
Sean Homer

10. Not Solvable by Radicals: Lacan, Topology, Politics
A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens.

Bibliography
Index