Badiou and Politics by Bruno Bosteels (English) Paperback Book

Description: Badiou and Politics by Bruno Bosteels Argues for understanding Badious thought as a revival of dialectical materialism FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Badiou and Politics offers a much-anticipated interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou. Countering ideas of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the event as a radical break, Bruno Bosteels reveals Badious deep and ongoing investment in the dialectic. Bosteels draws on all of Badious writings, from the philosophers student days in the 1960s to the present, as well as on Badious exchanges with other thinkers, from his avowed "masters" Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, to interlocutors including Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, Daniel Bensaid, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler. Bosteels tracks the philosophers political activities from the events of May 1968 through his embrace of Maoism and the work he has done since the 1980s, helping to mobilize Frances illegal immigrants or sans-papiers. Ultimately, Bosteels argues for understanding Badious thought as a revival of dialectical materialism, and he illuminates the philosophers understanding of the task of theory: to define a conceptual space for thinking emancipatory politics in the present. Notes Argues for understanding Badious thought as a revival of dialectical materialism Author Biography Bruno Bosteels is Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique and The Actuality of Communism, and the translator of Theory of the Subject and Wittgensteins Antiphilosophy, both by Alain Badiou. Table of Contents Preface ixAcknowledgments xxiIntroduction. Elements of Dialectical Materialism 11. The Absent Cause 452. Lack and Destruction 773. One Divides into Two 1104. The Ontological Impasse 1575. Forcing the Truth 1746. Logics of Change 1977. From Potentiality to Inexistence 2268. For Lack of Politics 250Conclusion. The Speculative Left 273In Dialogue with Alain Badiou Appendix 1. Can Change Be Thought? 289Appendix 2. Beyond Formalism 318Notes 351Selected Bibliography 407Index 423 Review "Bosteels, of course, has set himself the task of writing explicitly on Badious relation to politics... Bosteels convincingly demonstrates the dialectical richness of Badious relation of politics to theory.Particularly strong, for example, is Bosteels account of the ways in which Badiou has taken on and advanced Althusser and Lacans rethinking of causality, among other concerns at the intersection of politics, epistemology and ontology." - Tom Eyers, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, March 2012 "Bruno Bosteels fine book restores the political and philosophical context of Alain Badious life work, and shows in particular how he has aimed at completing all the great unfinished problems of contemporary theory, particularly those of Althusser and Lacan. Not only does it serve as a useful introduction to a complex and many-faceted thinker, it also makes it possible for us to grasp some of the debates of the 1960s in a far more comprehensive way than before." Fredric R. Jameson, Duke University "The most eagerly awaited book on Badious political thought yet written, Bruno Bosteels study is in a class of its own in every respect, remarkable as much for its enthusiasm and commitment as for its insight and precision, its depth of analysis and extraordinary breadth of reference. Badiou and Politics not only tracks the full course of Badious own distinctive post-Maoist trajectory in meticulous detail, it also provides an incisive and illuminating discussion of virtually the whole field of emancipatory theoretical engagement after Sartre." Peter Hallward, author of Badiou: A Subject to Truth "The ambitious challenge taken on and met by Badiou and Politics is to add to one of a handful of meta-tropes defining our current era and to add to an already sizable literature base surrounding one of the worlds most significant continental philosophers and living theorists. Bruno Bosteels meets this challenge head on by dividing the major uptake on Badious work into two primary trajectories: the being camp that stresses the logical ontology of oneness as pure multiplicity, and the event camp that traces the ways a subject assumes certain truths as situations prompt particular procedures. Once Bosteels has set up these two approaches, he proposes a third way to encounter Badiou. Bosteels corrective borrows from both approaches, settling on an affirmation of the politics of a dialectical materialism that would deploy both being and event strategies in a substantial reanimation of Badious place on, and contribution to, the philosophical map." - Kevin D. Kuswa, Culture Machine, July 2012 Promotional Argues for understanding Badious thought as a revival of dialectical materialism Review Quote "The most eagerly awaited book on Badious political thought yet written, Bruno Bosteels study is in a class of its own in every respect, remarkable as much for its enthusiasm and commitment as for its insight and precision, its depth of analysis and extraordinary breadth of reference. Badiou and Politics not only tracks the full course of Badious own distinctive post-Maoist trajectory in meticulous detail, it also provides an incisive and illuminating discussion of virtually the whole field of emancipatory theoretical engagement after Sartre."- Peter Hallward , author of Badiou: A Subject to Truth Promotional "Headline" Argues for understanding Badious thought as a revival of dialectical materialism Details ISBN0822350769 Author Bruno Bosteels Short Title BADIOU & POLITICS Series Post-Contemporary Interventions Language English ISBN-10 0822350769 ISBN-13 9780822350767 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 320.092 Publisher Duke University Press Year 2011 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Affiliation Cornell University Publication Date 2011-08-10 UK Release Date 2011-08-10 AU Release Date 2011-08-10 NZ Release Date 2011-08-10 US Release Date 2011-08-10 Pages 464 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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