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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Philosophical Conjuncture | 1
Part I: Rationalist Empiricism
1. Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions | 35
2. Althusser’s Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism | 50
Part II: Speculative Critique
3. Hegel’s Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics | 73
4. Hegel’s Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism | 90
Part III: Science, Art, Structure
5. Hegel’s Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units | 125
6. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier | 141
7. Where’s Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato’s Timaeus | 166
Coda: Structure and Form | 181
Part IV: Theory and Praxis
8. Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction | 185
9. The Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality:
From Althusser to Théorie Communiste | 204
10. The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx | 228
Conclusion: The True, the Good, the Beautiful | 249
Acknowledgments | 263
Notes | 265
Works Cited | 291
Index | 301
