Concept and Form, Volume 1: Selections from the Cahiers pour l'Analyse

by Peter Hallward (Editor), Knox Peden (Editor), Alain Badiou (Contribution by), Yves Duroux (Contribution by), Alain Grosrichard (Contribution by)

Overview

Edited by a small group of students—including Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault—at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l’Analyse appeared in ten volumes between 1966 to 1969. The journal was conceived as a contribution to a philosophy based on the primacy of concepts and the rigor of logic and formalization, as opposed to lived experience or the interpretation of meaning. The Cahiers published landmark texts by the most influential thinkers of the day, including Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, and Lacan, and were soon recognized as one of the most significant and innovative philosophical projects of the time.

The two volumes of Concept and Form offer the first systematic presentation and assessment of the Cahiers legacy in any language. The first volume translates a selection of original Cahiers texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844679300
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	12/12/2012
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including Absolutely Postcolonial, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, and Damming the Flood.

Knox Peden is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy.

Jacques-Alain Miller is Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII and editor of Lacan’s Seminars.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Abbreviations ix

Introduction to Volume One: 'Theoretical Training' Peter Hallward 1

1 Forewords to the Cahiers volumes 1-9 57

2 'Action of the Structure' Jacques-Alain Miller 69

3 'Psychology and Logic' Yves Duroux 85

4 'Structure (Elements of the Logic of the Signifier)' Jacques-Alain Miller 91

5 'The Analyst in His Place?' Serge Leclaire 103

6 'The Point of the Signifier' Jean-Claude Milner 107

7 'Dialectic of Epistemologies' François Regnault 119

8 'Questions for Michel Foucault' The Cercle d'Épistémologie 151

9 'Mark and Lack' Alain Badiou 159

10 'Infinitesimal Subversion' Alain Badiou 187

11 'An Eighteenth-Century Psychological Experiment' (followed by Chevalier de Mérian, 'The History of Molyneux's Problem') Alain Grosrichard 209

12 'The Thought of the Prince' François Regnault 229

Appendix: The Cahiers pour l'Analyse, Tables of Contents 259