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9780826498274

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826498274

  • ISBN10:

    0826498272

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-07
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Summary

This is the first complete English translation of the work that immediately followed Badiou's magnum opus, Being and Event in which Badiou provides an overview of what he sees as the four great conditions of philosophy - this book is therefore central to

Author Biography

Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France.

Table of Contents

The Subtractive: Preface
Philosophy Itselfp. 1
The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itselfp. 3
Definition of Philosophyp. 23
What is a Philosophical Institution? Or Address, Transmission, Inscriptionp. 26
Philosophy and Poetryp. 33
The Philosophical Recourse to the Poemp. 35
Mallarme's Method: Subtraction and Isolationp. 49
Rimbaud's Method: Interruptionp. 68
Philosophy and Mathematicsp. 91
Philosophy and Mathematicsp. 93
On Subtractionp. 113
Truth: Forcing and the Unnameablep. 139
Philosophy and Politicsp. 145
Philosophy and Politicsp. 147
Philosophy and Lovep. 177
What is Love?p. 179
Philosophy and Psychoanalysisp. 199
Philosophy and Psychoanalysisp. 201
The Subject and Infinityp. 211
Anti-Philosophy: Plato and Lacanp. 228
The Writing of the Genericp. 249
The Writing of the Generic: Samuel Beckettp. 251
Notesp. 285
Indexp. 311
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