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Book SynopsisThe first reassessment of Alain Badiou''s work since the English translation of his Logics of Worlds in 2009. From Cantor to category/topos theory, from Lacan to Lautman and from Sartre to the subject, these 13 essays engage directly with the work of Alain Badiou. They focus on the philosophical content of Badiou''s work and show how he connects both with his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. This is an important collection for anyone interested in the work of Badiou and contemporary Continental philosophy.
Table of ContentsI. Philosophy's Mathematical Condition; 2. Badiou's Platonism: The Mathematical Forms of Post-Cantorian Set-Theory; 3. What is Post-Cantorian Thought? Transfinitude and the Conditions of Philosophy; 4. The Set-Theoretical Nature of Badiou's Ontology and Lautman's Dialectic of Problematic Ideas.; 5. Sets, Categories and Topoi: Approaches to Ontology in Badiou's Later Work; II. Philosophical Concepts; 6. The Black Sheep of Philosophical Materialism...; 7. The Event; 8. Badiou and Neo-Pragmatism: Friend and Foe; III. Philosophical Figures; 9. Towards a New Political Subject: Badiou between Marx and Althusser; 10. 'The Greatest of Our Dead': Badiou's Lacan; 11. Badiou and Sartre: The Transformation of Freedom from Imagination to Chance; 12. Badiou's Reception of Heidegger; 13. One Falls into Two: Badiou's Critique of Deleuze.
