Bosteels Badiou and Politics

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9447-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Examines the political thinking of French philosopher of Alain Badiou, whose theories of ontology and mathematics have set him apart from many of his post-structuralist contemporaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bosteels, Bruno

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction. Elements of Dialectical Materialism 1

1. The Absent Cause 45

2. Lack and Destruction 77

3. One Divides into Two 110

4. The Ontological Impasse 157

5. Forcing the Truth 174

6. Logics of Change 197

7. From Potentiality to Inexistence 226

8. For Lack of Politics 250

Conclusion. The Speculative Left 273

In Dialogue with Alain Badiou

Appendix 1. Can Change Be Thought? 289

Appendix 2. Beyond Formalism 318

Notes 351

Selected Bibliography 407

Index 423

Über Autor(innen)

Bruno Bosteels is Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique and The Actuality of Communism, and the translator of Theory of the Subject and Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy, both by Alain Badiou.