Malebranche : : Theological Figure, Being 2 / / Alain Badiou; ed. by Kenneth Reinhard.
Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a to...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Seminars of Alain Badiou
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | 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 Malebranche: Malebranche's "Political Ontology" -- About the 1986 Seminar on Malebranche -- Session 1 -- Session 2 -- Session 3 -- Session 5 -- Session 6 -- Session 7 -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz.The seminar is at once a record of Badiou's thought at a key moment in the years before the publication of his most important work, Being and Event, and a lively interrogation of Malebranche's key text, the Treatise on Nature and Grace. Badiou develops a rigorous yet novel analysis of Malebranche's theory of grace, retracing his claims regarding the nature of creation and the relation between God and world and between God and Jesus. Through Malebranche, Badiou develops a radical concept of truth and the subject. This book renders a seemingly obscure post-Cartesian philosopher fascinating and alive, restoring him to the philosophy canon. It occupies a pivotal place in Badiou's reflections on the nature of being that demonstrates the crucial role of theology in his thinking. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231548533 9783110651959 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610550 9783110606423 |
DOI: | 10.7312/badi17478 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Alain Badiou; ed. by Kenneth Reinhard. |