Beschreibung:
Oliver Feltham teaches literature and philosophy at the American University of Paris, France, the University of California Paris Centre, and is a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
Offers an introduction to Alain Badiou's work and thought, laying out the central themes of his major works, including "Being and Event" and "Logics of Worlds". This book explores the fundamental questions through which Badiou's philosophy constantly evolves and identifies the key turning points in his ideas.
1. The Althusserian Years: Epistemology and the production of change; i. Structural Change in Society; ii. Structural Change in Knowledge: science and ideology; iii. The mathematical concept of model and scientific change; 2. Maoism and the dialectic; Introduction; i. The Maoist turn: the Primacy of Practice; ii. The Structural Dialectic and its Periodization; 3. Systematic Philosophy: From Being and Event to Logiques des mondes.; Introduction: the subtraction of Maoism; i. The Return to and Renovation of Systematic Philosophy; ii. The Extra Dose of Contingency: the Event, the Intervention and the eagle; iii. Forcing and the Generic: the old mole; iv. Method; v. Logiques des mondes as a Further Renovation of Systematic philosophy; vi. Conclusion: The pleasures of incompletion.