Badiou and the Political Condition / / Marios Constantinou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Constantinou, Marios,
• MitwirkendeR: Badiou, Alain,; Bartlett, A. J.,; Clemens, Justin,; Constantinou, Marios,; Hoens, Dominiek,; Homer, Sean,; Madarasz, Norman,; Norris, Christopher,; Pluth, Ed,; Ruda, Frank,; Voelker, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Connections : CRCO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Unpacks the diverse intellectual legacies woven into Badiou's work on contemporary polemics and political interventionsThe 11 essays in this volume, including a new piece by Badiou himself, reflect the formative traditions that shape the background of his political thought. They intervene critically and evaluate the present state of Badiou's work, while also breaking new ground and creating new thresholds of political thought.The contributors are a range of established scholars and rising theorists of the Badiou-effect. Each engages with the critical question of 'how to transmit the exception' politically. at the intersection of contemporary anti-imperial polemics and debates that strike at the heart of the post-modern condition (Lyotard), deconstruction (Derrida), psychoanalysis (Lacan - Zizek), biopolitics (Hardt and Negri) and pedagogy (Rancière).Key FeaturesAddresses the entire range of Badiou's political interventions and polemicsIncludes a chapter by Badiou: 'From Logic to Anthropology: Affirmative Dialectics'Investigates the anti-imperialist edge of his philosophy of truthBrings together his opposition to parliamentary politics with his trenchant critique of biopolitics

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Forcing Politics: Badiou's Anabasis in the Age of Empire -- Part I: The Crisis of Negation and the Political Condition -- 1 From Logic to Anthropology: Affirmative Dialectics -- 2 Conditioning Communism: Badiou, Plato and Philosophy as Meta-Critical Anamnesis -- 3 The Narrative Politics of Active Number -- 4 The Pascalian Wager of Politics: Remarks on Badiou and Lacan -- 5 Contra Opinionem: Politics as an Anti- Imperialist Procedure -- Part II: Compossibilities: Conditions of Philosophy in the Wake of Politics -- 6 Reversing and Affirming the Avantgardes: A New Paradigm for Politics -- 7 Badiou on Inaesthetics and Transitory Ontology: The Case of Political Song -- 8 Love in the Time of the Communist Hypothesis -- 9 The Politics of Comradeship: Philosophical Commitment and Construction in Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek -- 10 Not Solvable by Radicals: Lacan, Topology, Politics -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index