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Conditions

Conditions

by Alain Badiou (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

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Synopsis

Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', Badiou goes on to propose a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state. The essays that follow are ordered according to what Badiou sees as the four great conditions of philosophy: philosophy and poetry, philosophy and mathematics, philosophy and politics, and philosophy and love. Now available in paperback, Conditions provides an illuminating reworking of all the major theories in Being and Event. In so doing, Badiou not only develops the complexity of the concepts central to Being and Event but also adds new ones to his already formidable arsenal. The essays in Conditions reveal the extraordinary and systematic nature of Badiou's philosophical enterprise.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: Translation
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 23 Mar 2017
ISBN 10: 1350009040
ISBN 13: 9781350009042
Book Overview: This is the first complete English translation of the work that immediately followed Badiou's magnum opus, Being and Event in which Badiou provides an overview of what he sees as the four great conditions of philosophy - this book is therefore central to an understanding of Badiou's whole philosophical project.

Media Reviews
Conditions is the essential complement to Being and Event: a fascinating introduction to both its problematics and also their masterly depth. * Quentin Meillassoux *
Badiou is a prominent and sometimes controversial voice in Continental philosophy, and this collection of essays demonstrates his highly technical and original thought. Recommended for academic libraries. * Scott Duimstra, Library Journal, January 2009 *
Conditions is Badiou's most important collection of essays, and publication of this comprehensive translation is long overdue. In addition to fundamental meditations on the status of general categories like philosophy and truth, the essays collected here include some of Badiou's most significant and incisive engagements with the specific conditions of his own philosophical orientation, in the fields of literature, mathematics, politics and love. * Peter Hallward, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, UK *
Conditions... remains Alain Badiou's magnum opus and the most exhaustive exposition of his philosophical system, Being and Event ... [His] stark and crystalline expression of the break philosophy must make with its own self-mourning is a clear and still relevant definition of what it means to think in the twenty-first century. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
In a captivating sequence of chapters, written in a fluent style from which a rigorous philosophical meta-language is never absent and is often mingled with a poetic sense of words and expressions, Badiou's Conditions develops a systematic quest for the central issue of philosophy's place and purpose. -- The European Legacy, Vol. 16, No. 3
Author Bio
Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works including Being and Event (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Theory of the Subject (Bloomsbury, 2013).