Theory of the Subject

by Badiou, Alain; Bosteels, Bruno

• ISBN13: 9780826496737
• ISBN10: 0826496733
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-28
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou's earlier work (including Being and Event) can only be fully understood with a clear grasp of Theory of the Subject, one of his most important work

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	p. vii
Preface	p. xxxviii
References and Abbreviations	p. xliii
The Place of the Subjective	p. 1
Everything that belongs to a whole constitutes an obstacle to this whole insofar as it is included in it	p. 3
Action, manor of the subject	p. 13
The real is the impasse of formalization; formalization is the place of the forced pass of the real	p. 22
Hegel: 'The activity of force is essentially activity reacting against itself'	p. 29
Subjective and objective	p. 37
The Subject under the Signifiers of the Exception	p. 51
Of force as disappearance, whose effect is the Whole from which it has disappeared	p. 53
Deduction of the splitting	p. 65
'A la nue accablante tu'	p. 74
Any subject is a forced exception, which comes in second place	p. 84
Jewellery for the sacred of any subtraction of existence	p. 98
Lack and Destruction	p. 111
The new one forbids the new one, and presupposes it	p. 113
On the side of the true	p. 116
There are no such things as class relations	p. 125
Every subject crosses a lack of being and a destruction	p. 132
The subject's antecedence to itself	p. 140
Torsion	p. 148
Theory of the subject according to Sophocles, theory of the subject according to Aeschylus	p. 158
Of the strands of the knot, to know only the colour	p. 169
A Materialist Reversal of Materialism	p. 177
The black sheep of materialism	p. 179
The indissoluble salt of truth	p. 190
Answering-to the Sphinx-demands from the subject not to have to answer-for the Sphinx	p. 201
Algebra and topology	p. 208
Neighbourhoods	p. 215
Consistency, second name of the real after the cause	p. 224
So little ontology	p. 234
Subjectivization and Subjective Process	p. 241
The topological opposite of the knot is not the cut-dispersion but the destruction-recomposition	p. 243
Subjectivizing anticipation, retroaction of the subjective process	p. 248
'Hurry! Hurry! World of the Living!'	p. 254
The inexistent	p. 259
Logic of the excess	p. 265
Topics of Ethics	p. 275
Where?	p. 277
The subjective twist: ¿ and ¿	p. 285
Diagonals of the imaginary	p. 297
Schema	p. 304
Ethics as the dissipation of the paradoxes of partisanship	p. 309
Classical detour	p. 317
Love what you will never believe twice	p. 324
Translator's Endnotes and References	p. 333
Thematic Repertoire	p. 359
Index of Proper Names	p. 365
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