Concept and Form, Volume 2: Interviews and essays on Cahiers pour l'Analyse

by Peter Hallward (Editor), Knox Peden (Editor), Alain Badiou (Contribution by), Etienne Balibar (Contribution by), Edward Baring (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 second volume is a collection of newly commissioned essays on the journal and substantial interviews with members of the editorial board.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844679317
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	12/12/2012
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	2 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 Two: 'The Fate of the Concept' Knox Peden 1

1 'Structure and Subject' François Regnault 15

2 'Acting Out the Structure' Patrice Maniglier 25

3 'Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cahiers pour l'Analyse; Or, How to Be a Good Structuralist' Edward Baring 47

4 'Foucault and the Subject of Method' Knox Peden 69

5 'Desuturing Desire: The Work of the Letter in the Miller-Leclaire Debate' Tracy McNulty 89

6 'Turning the Sciences Inside Out: Revisiting Lacan's "Science and Truth"' Adrian Johnston 105

7 'Badiou and the Logic of Interruption' Peter Hallward 123

8 '"Suture", Forty Years Later' Slavoj Žižek 147

9 'A Philosophical Conjuncture': An Interview Étienne Balibar Yves Duroux 169

10 'Strong Structuralism, Weak Subject': An Interview Yves Duroux 187

11 'All of a Sudden, Psychoanalysis': An Interview François Regnault 203

12 'The Chains of Reason': An Interview Alain Grosrichard 215

13 'The Force of Minimalism': An Interview Jean-Claude Milner 229

14 'To Get Rid of the Signified': An Interview Jacques Bouveresse 245

15 'Only in the Form of Rupture': An Interview Jacques Rancière 259

16 'Theory from Structure to Subject': An Interview Alain Badiou 273