Images of the Present Time

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou's seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present."

List of contents

Editors’ Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou
The Seminars of Alain Badiou (1983–2016): General Preface
Introduction to the Seminar Images of Present Time by Kenneth Reinhard
About the 2001–2004 Seminar
Year 1: Contemporary Nihilism
1. Session 1
2. Session 2
3. Session 3
4. Session 4
5. Session 5
6. Session 6
7. Session 7
Year 2: Logic of Exceptions
8. Session 1
9. Session 2
10. Session 3
11. Session 4
12. Session 5
13. Session 6
14. Session 7
15. Session 8
Year 3: What Does it Mean to Live?
16. Session 1
17. Session 2
18. Session 3
19. Session 4
20. Session 5
Notes
Index

About the author

Alain Badiou is emeritus professor of philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. His seminars published by Columbia University Press include Lacan (2018) and Malebranche (2019).

Kenneth Reinhard is research professor of comparative literature and English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Susan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badiou’s works.

Summary

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of “the present.”

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou
• Assisted by: Kenneth Reinhard (Introduction), Reinhard Kenneth (Introduction), Susan Spitzer (Translation), Spitzer Susan (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780231176064
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17606-4
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: The Seminars of Alain Badiou
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -