Badiou and Philosophy

A collection of 13 essays that directly addresses the work of Alain Badiou, focusing specifically on the philosophical content of his work and the various connections he established with both his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. It examines Badiou's work through the lens of a number of thinkers and themes.

This title presents a range of critical engagements with the work of Alain Badiou. This collection of 13 essays directly addresses the work of Alain Badiou, focusing specifically on the philosophical content of his work and the various connections he established with both his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. This is the first reassessment of Badiou's work since the publication of the English translation of Logics of Worlds, (2009). It critiques how Badiou sources and responds to existing philosophical arguments and traditions as well as the arguments he employs to do so. It examines Badiou's work through the lens of a number of thinkers and themes, from Cantor and category/topos theory, through Lacan and Lautman, to Sartre and subject.

I. Philosophy's Mathematical Condition
2. Badiou's Platonism: The Mathematical Forms of Post-Cantorian Set-Theory
3. What is Post-Cantorian Thought? Transfinitude and the Conditions of Philosophy
4. The Set-Theoretical Nature of Badiou's Ontology and Lautman's Dialectic of Problematic Ideas.
5. Sets, Categories and Topoi: Approaches to Ontology in Badiou's Later Work
II. Philosophical Concepts
6. The Black Sheep of Philosophical Materialism...
7. The Event
8. Badiou and Neo-Pragmatism: Friend and Foe
III. Philosophical Figures
9. Towards a New Political Subject: Badiou between Marx and Althusser
10. 'The Greatest of Our Dead': Badiou's Lacan
11. Badiou and Sartre: The Transformation of Freedom from Imagination to Chance
12. Badiou's Reception of Heidegger
13. One Falls into Two: Badiou's Critique of Deleuze.