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Book SynopsisSeeks to provide a theory of the subject for Marxism through a study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, offering a major contribution to Marxism, as well as to the larger debate regarding the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. This book also offers a history and theory of structuralism and poststructuralism.
Trade Review"A rare achievement, a true philosophical classic, comparable to only two or three books in the twentieth century, such as Heidegger's Being and Time. The difference is that, if Being and Time left its mark on twentieth-century thought, Theory of the Subject announces the thought of the twenty-first century. It opens up the path that Badiou followed in his two later classics, Being and Event and Logics of Worlds, but it enforces this opening with a violent freshness which far surpasses its later developments. So beware, reader: when you open this book, you hold in your hands proof that philosophers of the status of Plato, Hegel and Heidegger are still walking around today!" - Slavoj Žižek
"Theory of the Subject is the first of Badiou's three great philosophical works, along with Being and Event and Logics of Worlds. It is his most passionate, most uncompromising and most revolutionary book. Bruno Bosteels has long been its most ardent and eloquent reader, and he is the ideal person to present and translate this challenging text"- Peter Hallward, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, UK
Reviewed in The European Legacy, Vol. 16, No. 4
Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction; Author's Preface to the English translation; Preface to the French edition; 1. The Place of the Subjective; 2. The Subject under the Signifiers of Exception; 3. Lack and Destruction; 4. A Materialist Reversal of Materialism; 5. Subjectivation and Subjective Proces; 6. Topologies of Ethics; Thematic Index; Name Index.
