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3048Alain 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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1111The 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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87Poetics, Self-Understanding and Health (13th ed.)Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 13 (2): 1-13. 2021.In the thick of the global plague, Richard, Justin and Valery agreed to hold a conversation on the topic of poetics, self-understanding, and health. An analysis and discussion of this trinity requires love of poetry and philosophy. Both supreme human practices take common root in mythology and religion, and also share a notorious categorical divide, that of reason against affect. Is this Platonic divide indeed categorical, given both practices rely on language and creativity to compose their mea…Read more
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81Philosophy as anti-religion in the work of Alain BadiouSophia 47 (3): 345-358. 2008.The Heideggerian rupture in the history of philosophy in the name of a phenomenological and poetic ontology has provided an opening which many of the key figures in twentieth century continental thought have exploited. However, this opening was marked by Heidegger himself as an ambiguous one, insofar as metaphysics was perhaps integrally ‘onto-theology,’ that is, ultimately continuous with the world-historical capture of the thought of being. This piece argues that the philosophy of Alain Badiou…Read more
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77The 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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64The Abandonment of Sex: Giorgio Agamben, Psychoanalysis and MelancholiaTheory and Event 13 (1). 2010.
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39Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, SubjectivityLexington Books. 2015.This book collects the work of leading scholars on Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel, creating a dialogue between, and a critical appraisal of, these two central figures in European philosophy
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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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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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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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24The Age of PlAstic; oR, cAtheRine MAlAbou on the hegeliAn futuRes MARketCosmos and History 6 (1): 163-168. 2010.
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12Lacan Deleuze BadiouEdinburgh University Press. 2014.The theoretical writings of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou stand at the heart of contemporary European thought. While the combined corpus of these three figures contains a significant number of references to each otherOCOs work, such references are often simply critical, obscure - or both. Lacan Deleuze Badiou guides us through the crucial, under-remarked interrelations between these three thinkers, identifying the conceptual passages, connections and disjunctions that underlie t…Read more
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12What is education? (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2017.A reconsideration of the philosophical destiny of education What is education? This volume thinks through this question from a range of perspectives unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it will give you new insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it. At a time when education is so important as to be considered an essential human right, yet is under attack from funding cuts, t…Read more
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10Contraversy in the Nursery; or, A Brace of BasterdsJournal of Continental Philosophy 1 (2): 232-243. 2020.The controversies unleashed by psychoanalysis never seem to stop repeating themselves. If what psychoanalysis has to say is true, then, by its own lights, it has to be controversial. Controversies are thus a privileged place to see this truth and this resistance in violent and lurid action. Take infant experience and bastardry. Every kid is a bit of a bastard, and the establishment of this infantile bastardry conditions subsequent repetitions of the organism: that breast is persecuting me, these…Read more
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9Psychoanalysis is an AntiphilosophyEdinburgh University Press. 2013.Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death - as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such matters. Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the 20th century, which left no practice from psychiatry to philosophy to politics untouched. Yet it was also in many ways an untouchable project, caught between science and poetry, medicine and hermeneutics. This unsettled, unsettling status has recently induced the philosopher Alain Badiou to characterise p…Read more
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8The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2008.More than any other thinker, Giorgio Agamben shows us that philosophy is also a matter of style and politics a matter of poetics. This book explores the unexpected and illuminating paths that his work traces across the territories of law and literature, linguistics, dance or cinema, in search of a new idea and practice of the community. It offers an irreplaceable introduction to one of the most fascinating thinkers of our time.'Jacques RanciereGathering some of the most important established and…Read more
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8Badiou and his interlocutors: lectures, interviews and responses (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2018.This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by established scholars in the field, addressing his concept…Read more
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6Had We But Worlds Enough, and Time, This Absolute, Philosopher…Cosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 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#39;s propositions in order to construct a logic of different #39;worlds.#39; This article outlines some of the major doctrines, arguments, and motivations for the new work, as well as sev…Read more
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6The Enigma of Giorgio AgambenIn Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron & Alex Murray (eds.), The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-12. 2008.
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5Masters Disciples: Institution, Philosophy, PraxisCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 2 (1-2): 1-8. 2006.Introduction to the special issue of Cosmos and History dedicated to the work of Alain Badiou.
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4O avatarjih in apoteozah. Blake Davida FallonaFilozofski Vestnik 39 (2). 2018.Članek prinaša sinoptični pregled nekaterih tem sodobnega Blakovega kriticizma, sklene pa se z recenzijo knjige Davida Fallona: Blake, Mit in razsvetljenstvo: Politika apoteoze, v kateri je apoteoza obravnavana z vidika mitične, literarne in realistične uporabe.
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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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