Lacan : : Anti-Philosophy 3 / / Alain Badiou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Badiou, Alain,
• MitwirkendeR: Badiou, Alain,; Reinhard, Kenneth,; Smith, Jason E.,; Spitzer, Susan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Reinhard, Kenneth.; Spitzer, Susan.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: The Seminars of Alain Badiou
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou's seminars, given annually on major conceptual and historical topics, constitute an enormously important part of his work. They served as laboratories for his thought and public illuminations of his complex ideas yet remain little known. This book, the transcript of Badiou's year-long seminar on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, is the first volume of his seminars to be published in English, opening up a new and vital aspect of his thinking.In a highly original and compelling account of Lacan's theory and therapeutic practice, Badiou considers the challenge that Lacan poses to fundamental philosophical topics such as being, the subject, and truth. Badiou argues that Lacan is a singular figure of the "anti-philosopher," a series of thinkers stretching back to Saint Paul and including Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, with Lacan as the last great anti-philosopher of modernity. The book offers a forceful reading of an enigmatic yet foundational thinker and sheds light on the crucial role that Lacan plays in Badiou's own thought. This seminar, more accessible than some of Badiou's more difficult works, will be profoundly valuable for the many readers across academic disciplines, art and literature, and political activism who find his thought essential.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction To The English Edition Of The Seminars Of Alain Badiou -- The Seminars Of Alain Badiou (1983-2016): General Preface -- Introduction To The Seminar On Lacan -- About The 1994-95 Seminar On Lacan -- Abbreviations Of Lacan'S Works Cited In The Text -- Session 1. November 9, 1994 -- Session 2. November 30, 1994 -- Session 3. December 21, 1994 -- Session 4. January 11, 1995 -- Session 5. January 18, 1995 -- Session 6. March 15, 1995 -- Session 7. April 5, 1995 -- Session 8. May 31, 1995 -- Session 9. June 15, 1995 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index