Badiou and Philosophy

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.

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 (c) akg-images. Cover design: [insert logo file] euppublishing.com

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Contributors; 1. Badiou's Philosophical Heritage, Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy; I. Philosophy's Mathematical Condition; 2. What is Post-Cantorian Thought? Transfinitude and the Conditions of Philosophy, Tzuchien Tho; 3. The Set-Theoretical Nature of Badiou's Ontology and Lautman's Dialectic of Problematic Ideas, Sean Bowden; 4. Badiou's Platonism: The Mathematical Ideas of Post-Cantorian Set-Theory, Simon Duffy; 5. Sets, Categories and Topoi: Approaches to Ontology in Badiou's Later Work, Anindya Bhattacharyya; II. Philosophical Notions and Orientations; 6. The Black Sheep of Materialism: The Theory of the Subject, Ed Pluth; 7. A Critique of Alain Badiou's Denial of Time in his Philosophy of Events, James Williams; 8. Doing without Ontology: A Quinean Pragmatist Approach to Badiou, Talia Morag; 9. Towards a New Political Subject? Badiou between Marx and Althusser, Nina Power; III. Philosophical Figures; 10. 'The Greatest of Our Dead': Badiou and Lacan, Justin Clemens & Adam J. Bartlett; 11. Badiou and Sartre: Freedom, from Imagination to Chance, Brian A. Smith; 12. Badiou's Relation to Heidegger in Theory of the Subject, Graham Harman; 13. One Divides into Two: Badiou's Critique of Deleuze, Jon Roffe; Bibliography; Index.