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76The Life of the Party: A Brief Note on Nietzsche’s EthicsFilozofski Vestnik 30 (2). 2009.As a philologist, Nietzsche had to be a materialist – a materialist of letters. If letters are not life, however, they are the indices of its limits. You can’t live except at the limit; to get to a limit, you have to reconstruct a genealogy for yourself; once you know where you are, you have the opportunity to lose yourself again, this time effectively. Life is whatever will have greeted you in that loss, the disappearance at the limit.
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Man is a swarm animalIn Dominiek Hoens, Sigi Jottkandt & Gert Buelens (eds.), The catastrophic imperative: subjectivity, time and memory in contemporary thought, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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1101The praxis of Alain Badiou (edited book)Re.Press. 2006.Following the publication of his magnum opus L’être et l’événement (Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed as one of France’s greatest living philosophers. Since then, he has released a dozen books, including Manifesto for Philosophy, Conditions, Metapolitics and Logiques des mondes (Logics of Worlds), many of which are now available in English translation. Badiou writes on an extraordinary array of topics, and his work has already had an impact upon studies in the history of …Read more
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3Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that contemporary theory is still essentially Romantic - despite all its declarations to the contrary, and despite all its attempts to elude or exceed the limits bequeathed it by Romantic thought. This study will be of interest to literary theorists, philosophers, political theorists, and cultural studies scholars.
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33Galileo's telescope in John Milton's Paradise Lost: the modern origin of the critique of science as instrumental rationality?Filozofski Vestnik 33 (2): 163-194. 2012.“Almost in the same historical moment when Galileo directed all modern physics to the reading of that book which Nature was supposed to have written herself in geometric or, subsequently, algebraic signs, the modern novel and modern theatre stepped in as evidence that modern readers and spectators enjoy the effects of those fictions most of all when they are altogether free of science.” Friedrich Kittler, “Man as a drunken town musician”
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3035Alain Badiou: Key ConceptsRoutledge. 2010.Alain Badiou is one of the world's most influential living philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, or his ability to intervene in debates critical to both analytic and continental philosophy. Alain Badiou: Key Concepts presents an overview of and introduction to the full range of Badiou's thinking. Essays focus on the foundations of Badiou's thought, his "key concepts" - truth, being, ontology, the subject, and conditions - and on his engagement wit…Read more
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33Had we but worlds enougH, and time, tHis absolute, pHilosopHer…Cosmos and History 2 (1-2): 277-310. 2006.In Logiques des Mondes, Paris, Seuil, 2006, Alain Badiou has produced a sequel to his magnum opus Being and Event. Whereas Being and Event primarily restricted itself to the relationship between ontology and the event, mathematics and poetry, the new book seriously extends and revises certain of its predecessor's. This article outlines some of the major doctrines, arguments, and motivations for the new work, as well as several points of possible difficulty
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64The Abandonment of Sex: Giorgio Agamben, Psychoanalysis and MelancholiaTheory and Event 13 (1). 2010.
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1Letters as the condition of conditions for Alain BadiouCommunication and Cognition. Monographies 36 (1-2): 73-102. 2003.
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Masters and DisciplesIn Paul Ashton, A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens (eds.), The Praxis of Alain Badiou, Re.press. pp. 3--12. 2006.
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23The Age of PlAstic; oR, cAtheRine MAlAbou on the hegeliAn futuRes MARketCosmos and History 6 (1): 163-168. 2010.
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26Doubles of Nothing: The Problem of Binding Truth to Being in the Work of Alain BadiouFilozofski Vestnik 26 (2). 2005.In this article, I discuss how things go with the "Nothing" in the work of Alain Badiou, a topic which is evidently central to his thought, and which has received a great deal of attention in the commentary to date. As this problem is inaccessible outside of Badiou’s deployment of mathematics, I will suggest how accounts of Badiou’s work remain flawed insofar as they evade his mathematical demonstrations, and I attempt to clarify how mathematics operates in his system. I then examine the consequ…Read more
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