Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou (Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
List of Tables and Figures
	Tables
	Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	The Relation of This Study to the Existing Secondary Literature
	Notes
Part I: Subject and Structure
	Introduction
Chapter 1: The Debate in Cahiers pour l’Analyse
	Suture: The Subject and Number
		Frege: Cardinal Number and the Number Sequence
		Miller: The Logic of Signifier
	Mark and Lack: Formalism as Fidelity
		Given the Existence of an Algorithm to Solve a Problem, Is the Solution Practical?
		What Are These Metaphysical Imports?
		Ontology of Discipline and Epistemology of Discourse
	Notes
Part II: Subject and Real
	Introduction
	Notes
Chapter 2: Hegel Is Divisible in Two
	Two Dialectical Matrices: Unconscious Materialism of Hegel
	Identity and Place: Splitting Hegel the First Time
	Circularity and Periodization: Splitting Hegel the Second Time
	Toward a Theory of Force
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Lacan Is Our Hegel
	Lacan Is Our Contemporary
		Early Lacan
		Middle Lacan
		Late Lacan
	Lacan Is Idealist
		The Idealism of SD versus Materialism of HD
		In What Sense Is Lacan an Idealist?
	How Do Masses Exactly Map to the Other Two Senses of Real: As Cause and as Consistency?
	Notes
Chapter 4: Lacan Is Divisible in Two
	What Is the Remedy to This?
		“Logical Time”: Some Introductory Remarks
		“Logical Time”: A Sophism
		“Logical Time”: Dividing Lacan
	Notes
Chapter 5: Toward a General Theory of Structure
Part III: Subject and Infinity
	Introduction
	Notes
Chapter 6: Axiom
	Theory of Regionalized Multiplicities: A Theory with No Foundation
	Ontology: The General Theory of Regionalized Multiplicities
	The Void
	Event
		Event and Discipline
	Notes
Chapter 7: Infinity
	Senses of Infinity
		Infinity as a Modality of the One—Spinoza
		Infinity as a Modality of Finite—Hegel
		The Axiomatic Infinity
			The Impact of the Axiom of Infinity
			Finite as the Regionalization of Infinite
			Axiom of Infinity and the Axiomatic Thinking in General
	Infinity and the Real
		The Seal of Infinity
		Infinity and the Names of the Real
	Generic: The Name of the Real as Truth
		Constructivism
			The Axiom of Constructibility
			The Restriction of Being and the Restriction of Thought
		Generic
			Generic and Event: Disposition and Composition
			Generic: The General Strategy
	Theory of the Discipline: From Infinity to Subjectivity
	Notes
Chapter 8: Subject
	The Subject and the Cogito
	How Does This Model Measure Up to Our Disciplinary Requirements?
	The Subject and Infinity
	Notes
Conclusion
	Note
References
Index
About the Author