Alain Badiou: Philosophy and Its Conditions

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction Alain Badiou: The Event of Thinking [Gabriel Riera]......Page 12
A PHILOSOPHY TO COME: BADIOU AND THE "END OF PHILOSOPHY"......Page 15
BADIOU'S DECISION: "MATHEMATICS = ONTOLOGY"......Page 18
MATHEMATICS' UNTHOUGHT: THE EVENT......Page 19
SUBJECTIVE INTERVENTION (POLITICS AND ETHICS)......Page 23
THINKING THROUGH BADIOU: PHILOSOPHY UNDER CONDITIONS......Page 24
NOTES......Page 30
PART ONE. MATHEMATICS = ONTOLOGY......Page 32
1. On Alain Badiou's Treatment of Category Theory in View of a Transitory Ontology [Norman Madarasz]......Page 34
ON SET AND CATEGORY THEORY AS COMPETING PARADIGMS FOR BADIOU'S THESIS ON MATHEMATICA/ONTOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION......Page 38
THE INFINITE AND THE APPEARING......Page 42
CATEGORY AND TRANSITORY ONTOLOGY......Page 46
NOTES......Page 53
2. The Ontological Dispute: Badiou, Heidegger, and Deleuze [Miguel de Beistegui]......Page 56
NOTES......Page 69
PART TWO. THE POEM......Page 70
3. For an "Ethics of Mystery": Philosophy and the Poem [Gabriel Riera]......Page 72
PHILOSOPHY UNDER CONDITIONS: THE COLDNESS OF THE MATHEME, THE HEAT OF RHETORIC......Page 75
POETIC SUTURE......Page 79
ON WOUNDS, SUTURES, AND STITCHES ('POINTS'): "A RELATION OF THE FOURTH TYPE"?......Page 83
"AU 'POINT' DE L'INNOMABLE," OR FOR AN "ETHICS OF MYSTERY"......Page 89
NOTES......Page 95
4. Unbreakable B's: From Beckett and Badiou to the Bitter End of Affirmative Ethics [Jean-Michel Rabaté]......Page 98
BADIOU'S READING PROGRAM......Page 99
THE LAW AND THE "PARADOXICAL SUPPLEMENT" OF THE EVENT......Page 102
THE TORTURE OF THE COGITO......Page 105
OF RATS, MEN, AND TERMITES......Page 108
POST-SADEAN OR POST-KANTIAN ETHICS?......Page 110
TRUTH AND JOUISSANCE......Page 114
NOTES......Page 118
5. The Mallarrné of Alain Badiou [Pierre Macherey]......Page 120
NOTE......Page 126
PART THREE. LOVE (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis)......Page 128
6. 'Gai Savoir Sera': The Science of Love and the Insolence of Chance [Joan Copjec]......Page 130
NOTES......Page 145
PROLOGUE: ON LOVE AND LAW......Page 148
OF BADIOU'S "TRUTH": BEING BEYOND LANGUAGE......Page 149
On the Uses and Abuses of Topology: Badiou, Lacan, and Freudian Psychoanalysis......Page 152
Of the Freudian Unconscious, and Badiou's......Page 162
Destruction: The Scene of the Real—and of Creative Sublimation......Page 164
Badiou and Sexuality: "Multiple Subject" against "Woman"?......Page 169
THE REGIME OF THE "WE": OR, FRATERNAL POLITICS AND THE ART OF LOVE......Page 173
On Love: La Scene du Deux......Page 178
Lacan and Topological Love?......Page 183
NOTES......Page 187
8. Feminine Love and the Pauline Universal [Tracy McNulty]......Page 196
UNITY OF THE AMOROUS TRUTH: SEXUATED CONFLICT OF THE TWO SAVOIRS......Page 198
WHY LOVE?......Page 203
WORLDLY ALTERITY AND THE TRANSCENDENT UNIVERSAL......Page 205
THE CRUSHING SYMBOLIC OF THE FATHERS: THE ANTILAW OF LOVE......Page 209
UNIVERSALISM AND EQUALITY: ONE FOR ALL......Page 215
THE FEMININE, OR "EACH AND EVERY" FOR NOT-ALL......Page 216
THE LAUGHTER OF ISRAEL......Page 219
NOTES......Page 221
PART FOUR. POLITICS AND ETHICS......Page 224
9. On the Ethics of Alain Badiou [Simon Critchley]......Page 226
THREE APPLICATIONS OF THE STRUCTURE OF ETHICAL EXPERIENCE: LEVINAS, LACAN, AND BADIOU......Page 229
THE PLACE OF ETHICS IN BADIOU'S SYSTEM......Page 232
THE LOGIC OF THE EVENT IN BADIOU—VIRTUOUSLY OR VICIOUSLY CIRCULAR?......Page 236
HOW TO DISTINGUISH A TRUE FROM A FALSE EVENT—THE QUESTION OF HEGEMONY......Page 237
LOVE AND LAW—BADIOU AND PSYCHOANALYSIS......Page 239
BECKETT AS HEROIC COMIC ANTIHERO OF BADIOU'S WORK—AGAINST TRAGEDY......Page 241
NOTES......Page 245
THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS......Page 248
THE MOTIF OF THE END......Page 249
IN THE SHADOW OF MAO......Page 252
DEVIATIONS LEFT AND RIGHT: TOWARD RADICAL PHILOSOPHY?......Page 257
LACK OR DESTRUCTION: BREAKING DOWN THE RULE OF ORDER......Page 259
EVENT OR ENCOUNTER: ALTHUSSER'S POSTHUMOUS WRITINGS......Page 260
RADICALS AND DOGMATISTS: REPLYING TO THE CRITICS......Page 261
THE SOVEREIGN EVENT?......Page 264
REDEFINING HISTORY: THE LEGACY OF MICHEL FOUCAULT......Page 266
CONDITIONS FOR PHILOSOPHY......Page 268
ON THE QUESTION OF CULTURE......Page 269
RETURN TO THE VOID......Page 271
WORKS BY ALAIN BADIOU......Page 274
SHORTER WORKS BY ALAIN BADIOU......Page 275
WORKS ON ALAIN BADIOU......Page 276
Contributors......Page 280
Index......Page 284