Images of the Present Time / / Alain Badiou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Badiou, Alain,
• MitwirkendeR: Reinhard, Kenneth,; Spitzer, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Seminars of Alain Badiou
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of “the present.” In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one’s own time—that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into existence.Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, partly against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. Given while Badiou was writing Logics of Worlds, the second of the three volumes of Being and Event, these lectures address some of the same questions of existence in a particular world in a more personal and conversational tone, with reference to literature, philosophy, and contemporary politics and culture. He proposes a new concept of living in a real present as the twisting together of something from the past and something of the future.Featuring some of the philosopher’s most inspiring and approachable work, Images of the Present Time is an important book for all readers interested in the practical as well as conceptual possibilities of Badiou’s thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou -- Author’s General Preface to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou -- Introduction to the Seminar Images of the Present Time (Kenneth Reinhard) -- About the 2001–2004 Seminar -- Year One: Contemporary Nihilism -- Session 1 -- Session 2 -- Session 3 -- Session 4 -- Session 5 -- Session 6 -- Session 7 -- Year Two: The Logic of Exceptions -- Session 1 -- Session 2 -- Session 3 -- Session 4 -- Session 5 -- Session 6 -- Session 7 -- Session 8 -- Year Three: What Does it Mean to Live? -- Session 1 -- Session 2 -- Session 3 -- Session 4 -- Session 5 -- Notes -- Index -- List of the seminars (in chronological order)