Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012 โ 288 p. โ ISBN-10: 0748643516; ISBN-13: 978-0748643516.
The first reassessment of Alain Badiou's work since the English translation of his Logics of Worlds in 2009. From Cantor to category/topos theory, from Lacan to Lautman and from Sartre to the subject, these 13 essays engage directly with the work of Alain Badiou. They focus on the philosophical content of Badiou's work and show how he connects both with his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. This is an important collection for anyone interested in the work of Badiou and contemporary Continental philosophy.
ContentsPhilosophy's Mathematical ConditionWhat Is Post-Cantorian Thought? Transfinitude and the Conditions of Philosophy. Tzuchien Tho
The Set-Theoretical Nature of Badiou's Ontology and Lautman's Dialectic of Problematic Ideas. Sean Bowden
Badiou's Platonism: The Mathematical Ideas of Post-Cantorian Set Theory. Simon Duffy
Sets, Categories and Topoi: Approaches to Ontology in Badiou's Later Work. Anindya Bhattacharyya
Philosophical Notions and OrientationsThe Black Sheep of Materialism: The Theory of the Subject. Ed Pluth
A Critique of Alain Badiou's Denial of Time in his Philosophy of Events. James Williams
Doing Without Ontology: A Quinean Pragmatist Approach to Badiou. Talia Morag
Towards a New Political Subject? Badiou between Marx and Althusser. Nina Power
Philosophical FiguresThe Greatest of Our Dead': Badiou and Lacan. Justin Clemens and Adam J. Bartlett
Badiou and Sartre: Freedom, from Imagination to Chance. Brian A. Smith
Badiou's Relation to Heidegger in Theory of the Subject. Graham Harmon
One Divides into Two: Badiou's Critique of Deleuze. Jon Roffe