The Badiou Dictionary

The Badiou Dictionary

by Steven Corcoran (Editor)
The Badiou Dictionary

The Badiou Dictionary

by Steven Corcoran (Editor)

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Overview

The first dictionary dedicated to Badiou's work, bringing together over 35 leading scholars in the field

From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary provide detailed explanations and engagements with his key concepts and some of his major interlocutors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a productive and enlightening way.

Alain Badiou's philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre.

Contributers include: Alenka Zupancic, Christopher Norris, Justin Clemens, Nina Power, Bruno Besana and Frank Ruda

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780748640966
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 07/09/2015
Series: Philosophical Dictionaries
Pages: 424
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction
Steven Corcoran

Entries A-Z
Absolute (The)
Affirmationism
Antiphilosophy
Appearance, existence
-The appearing of truth
AXIOM
Samuel Beckett
Being
The Body
-Body and identification
-Body and Subject
-Body and Event
-Body and Void
-Body and Organs
-Body and the present
Georg Cantor
Category Theory
The Twentieth Century
-The passion of the real
-Destruction vs Subtraction
Consistent and Inconsistent Multiplicity
Cinema
Communism
Compossibility
Decision
Gilles Deleuze
Democracy
-Democracy as a figure of state
-Democracy as a philosophical notion
-Democratic materialism
Derrida
Dialectics
Disaster
Encyclopaedia
Ethics and evil
Event
Existence/Non-Existence
Factory/Worker
FEMINISM
Fidelity
Forci ng
-Forcing in 'Infinitesimal Subversion
-Forcing in Being and Event
Generic
Martin Heidegger
History
-Overturning the diametrical opposition between history and eternity
Ideology
-Ideology: Before 1968
-Ideology: After 1968
Inaesthetics
Infinity
Uses of the word 'Jew'
Justice
Immanuel Kant
Kierkegaard
Linguistic Turn
Love
Maoist politics
Marxist politics
-The Four Fundamental Concepts of Marxism in TS
-The 'post-Maoism' of post-BE
Matheme
Metaphysics
Metapolitics
-Immanent conditions of politics
Model
Multiplicity
-At the origins of the concept of pure multiplicity
-Pure multiplicity
Nature
Nietzsche
Nouveaux philosophes
Numbers
Surreal Numbers
Object
THE ONE
Ontology, metaontology
Pascal
Philosophical situation
Platonism/anti-Platonism
Politics
Psychoanalysis + Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis + Lacan
RANCIERE and EQUALITY
-A common polemics
-Equality and thought
-The axiomatic or procedural status of equality
-Subject and sequence
Representation
Romanticism
Sans-Papiers
Jean-Paul Sartre
Saint Paul
-Paul and the Subjective Consequences of the Event
-Paul and 'the present'
-The antinomies of militancy
-Resurrection
Saturation
Schoenberg
-How are we to understand such a philosophical relation?
Sexuality
Site
Sophistry
Baruch Spinoza
Figures of the Subject*
-Subject as sequence
-The Faithful Subject
-The Reactive Subject
-The Obscure Subject
- Resurrection
Subtraction - undecidable, indiscernible, generic, unnameable
-The undecidable
-The indiscernible
-The generic
-The unnameable
-Subtraction: affirmation and negation
Suture
-Ideological Suture
-Ontological Suture
-Philosophical Suture
System
Theatre
Thermidorian
Truth
Topology
Transcendental Regime
The Two
Universality
VOID
Wagner
Woman, the feminine, sexual difference
-SUBTRACTION: woman as particularity
-SUBLIMATION: woman as a guarantee of universality for humanity
-SUBLATION: woman as the going-beyond of the One
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Worlds
-Worldliness and Capitalism

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors

What People are Saying About This

There is no doubt that The Badiou Dictionary will present a landmark. Its entries provide a series of red threads through the work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers, written with clarity and based on vast scholarship. Steve Corcoran gathered a most impressive group of outstanding scholars, each with an independent voice. Indispensable for the beginners, a treat for all who have been following the development of Badiou’s thought over the last decades.

University of Ljubljana Mladen Dolar

There is no doubt that The Badiou Dictionary will present a landmark. Its entries provide a series of red threads through the work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers, written with clarity and based on vast scholarship. Steve Corcoran gathered a most impressive group of outstanding scholars, each with an independent voice. Indispensable for the beginners, a treat for all who have been following the development of Badiou’s thought over the last decades.

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