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Zusatztext In a captivating sequence of chapters, written in a fluent style from which a rigorous philosophical meta-language is never absent and is often mingled with a poetic sense of words and expressions, Badiou's Conditions develops a systematic quest for the central issue of philosophy's place and purpose. Informationen zum Autor Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021). Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics and Conditions , and Alienation and Freedom (Bloomsbury 2017) by Frantz Fanon. Klappentext Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', Badiou goes on to propose a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state. The essays that follow are ordered according to what Badiou sees as the four great conditions of philosophy: philosophy and poetry, philosophy and mathematics, philosophy and politics, and philosophy and love. Conditions provides an illuminating reworking of all the major theories in Being and Event . In so doing, Badiou not only develops the complexity of the concepts central to Being and Event but also adds new ones to his already formidable arsenal. The essays in Conditions reveal the extraordinary and systematic nature of Badiou's philosophical enterprise. Vorwort 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 an understanding of Badiou's whole philosophical project. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays of the author. Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', it goes on to propose a definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Subtractive: Preface by Francois Wahl Acknowledgements I. Philosophy Itself 1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself 2. Definition of philosophy 3. What is a philosophical institution? II. Philosophy and Poetry 4. The philosophical recourse to the poem 5. Mallarmé's method: subtraction and isolation 6. Rimbaud's method: interruption III. Philosophy and Mathematics 7. Philosophy and mathematics 8. Conference on subtraction 9. Truth: forcing and unnameable IV. Philosophy and Politics 10. Philosophy and politics V. Philosophy and Love 11. What is love? VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis 12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis 13. Subject and infinite 14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and Plato VII. Writing of the Generic 15. Writing of the generic: Samuel Beckett Notes Index ...
