Badiou and Philosophy

Review This anthology participates in a shift in the scholarship surrounding Badiou’s work: beyond enthusiasm and polemic, the ground now opened, scholars sound the complexity of the oeuvre, reveal its intricate articulation of mathematics and ontology, and discover its peculiar capacity to generate, beyond commentary, new philosophical investigations. -- Professor Oliver Feltham, Philosophy Program, American University of Paris Product Description 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. From the Back Cover C R I T I C A L C O N N E C T I O N S SERIES EDITORS: IAN BUCHANAN AND JAMES WILLIAMS ‘The contributors to this collection sound the complexity of Badiou’s oeuvre, reveal its intricate articulation of mathematics and ontology, and discover its peculiar capacity to generate new philosophical investigations.’ Oliver Feltham, Philosophy Program, American University of Paris A reassessment of Badiou’s work which demonstrates its critical importance for contemporary philosophy This collection of 13 essays engages directly with the work of Alain Badiou. It focuses on the philosophical content of his work and how he connects with his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. You’ll find in-depth critical readings of Badiou’s body of work viewed through the lens of a number of important philosophical thinkers and themes, ranging from Cantor and category/topos theory, Lacan and Lautman, through to Sartre and the subject. This is an important collection for anyone interested in the work of Badiou and contemporary Continental philosophy. Sean Bowden is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. Simon Duffy is a Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. Cover image: Black circle, c.1923. Kasimir Malevich © akg-images. Cover design: [insert logo file] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-0-7486-4351-6 [please add in the white area above the barcode] Barcode About the Author Sean Bowden is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), and has published a number of articles and book chapters on Badiou, Deleuze and Simondon.Simon Duffy is a Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze (Ashgate, 2006), and is the editor of Virtual Mathematics: The Logic of Difference (Clinamen, 2006). He recently translated the French collection of the work of Albert Lautman, Mathematics, Ideas and the physical real (Continuum, 2011).