Badiou's Deleuze

Badiou's Deleuze
Author: Jon Roffe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317547586

Badiou's Deleuze presents the first thorough analysis of one of the most significant encounters in contemporary thought: Alain Badiou's summary interpretation and rejection of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Badiou's reading of Deleuze is largely laid out in his provocative book, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, a highly influential work of considerable power. Badiou's Deleuze presents a detailed examination of Badiou's reading and argues that, whilst it fails to do justice to the Deleuzean project, it invites us to reconsider what Deleuze's philosophy amounts to, to reassess Deleuze's power to address the ultimate concerns of philosophy. Badiou's Deleuze analyses the differing metaphysics of two of the most influential of recent continental philosophers, whose divergent views have helped to shape much contemporary thought.

Deleuze Beyond Badiou

Deleuze Beyond Badiou
Author: Clayton Crockett
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231530919

First published in 1997, Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast Gilles Deleuze as a secret philosopher of the One. In this work, Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major works and a constructive conception of his philosophical ontology. Through close readings of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (with Felix Guattari), and Cinema 2, Crockett argues that Deleuze is anything but the austere, quietistic, and aristocratic intellectual Badiou had portrayed. Instead, Crockett underscores Deleuze's radical aesthetics and innovative scientific, political, and mathematical forms of thought. He also refutes the notion Deleuze retreated from politics toward the end of his life. Using Badiou's critique as a foil, Crockett maintains the profound continuity of Deleuze's work and builds a general interpretation of his more obscure formulations.

Lacan Deleuze Badiou

Lacan Deleuze Badiou
Author: A. J Bartlett
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2015-01-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748682074

'Lacan Deleuze Badiou' guides us through the crucial, under-remarked interrelations between these three thinkers, identifying the conceptual passages, connections and disjunctions that underlie the often superficial statements of critique, indifference or

Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature

Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
Author: Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748655220

Assesses and contrasts the reading styles of two major French philosophers, Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.

Resistance and the Politics of Truth

Resistance and the Politics of Truth
Author: Iain MacKenzie
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2018-03-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3732839079

`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspectives: the poststructuralist politics of truth formulated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the alternative post-foundational account of truth and militancy developed by Alain Badiou. He argues that a critically oriented version of poststructuralism provides both an understanding of the deeply entwined nature of truth and power and a compelling account of the creative practices that may sustain resistance.

The Adventure of French Philosophy

The Adventure of French Philosophy
Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1788737067

The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the “French moment” in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser’s canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of “potato fascism” in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought. Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.

Being and Event

Being and Event
Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2007-07-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 082649529X

A translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou's magnum opus, and a must-have for his growing following and anyone interested in contemporary Continental thought.

Out of this World

Out of this World
Author: Peter Hallward
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781844670796

A controversial critique of an iconic philosopher.

Deleuze and the History of Mathematics

Deleuze and the History of Mathematics
Author: Simon Duffy
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-05-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441113894

Gilles Deleuze's engagements with mathematics, replete in his work, rely upon the construction of alternative lineages in the history of mathematics, which challenge some of the self imposed limits that regulate the canonical concepts of the discipline. For Deleuze, these challenges provide an opportunity to reconfigure particular philosophical problems - for example, the problem of individuation - and to develop new concepts in response to them. The highly original research presented in this book explores the mathematical construction of Deleuze's philosophy, as well as addressing the undervalued and often neglected question of the mathematical thinkers who influenced his work. In the wake of Alain Badiou's recent and seemingly devastating attack on the way the relation between mathematics and philosophy is configured in Deleuze's work, Simon B.Duffy offers a robust defence of the structure of Deleuze's philosophy and, in particular, the adequacy of the mathematical problems used in its construction. By reconciling Badiou and Deleuze's seemingly incompatible engagements with mathematics, Duffy succeeds in presenting a solid foundation for Deleuze's philosophy, rebuffing the recent challenges against it.

Anti-Badiou

Anti-Badiou
Author: Francois Laruelle
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441190767

This compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, François Laruelle. At face value, the two have much in common: both espouse a position of absolute immanence; both argue that philosophy is conditioned by science; and both command a pluralism of thought. Anti-Badiou relates the parallel stories of Badiou's Maoist 'ontology of the void' and Laruelle's own performative practice of 'non-philosophy' and explains why the two are in fact radically different. Badiou's entire project aims to re-educate philosophy through one science: mathematics. Laruelle carefully examines Badiou's Being and Event and shows how Badiou has created a new aristocracy that crowns his own philosophy as the master of an entire theoretical universe. In turn, Laruelle explains the contrast with his own non-philosophy as a true democracy of thought that breaks philosophy's continual enthrall with mathematics and instead opens up a myriad of 'non-standard' places where thinking can be found and practised.