Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Badiou Dictionary by Steven Corcoran From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, the 110 entries in this dictionary provide detailed explanations and engagements with Badiouss key concepts and major interlocutors. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Alain Badious philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre. From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary provide detailed explanations and engagements with his key concepts and some of his major interlocutors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a productive and enlightening way. Back Cover There is no doubt that The Badiou Dictionary will represent a landmark. Its entries provide a series of red threads through the work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers, written with clarity and based on vast scholarship. Steven Corcoran has gathered a most impressive group of outstanding scholars, each with an independent voice. Indispensible for beginners and a treat for all who have been following the development of Badious thought over the last decades. Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana The first dictionary dedicated to the ambitious philosophical project of Alain Badiou Alain Badious philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre.From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary, provide detailed explanations and engagements with his key concepts and some of his major interlocutors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a productive and enlightening way.Written by leading commentators from around the world, including Justin Clemens, Fran Flap There is no doubt that The Badiou Dictionary will represent a landmark. Its entries provide a series of red threads through the work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers, written with clarity and based on vast scholarship. Steven Corcoran has gathered a most impressive group of outstanding scholars, each with an independent voice. Indispensible for beginners and a treat for all who have been following the development of Badious thought over the last decades.Mladen Dolar, University of LjubljanaThe first dictionary dedicated to the ambitious philosophical project of Alain BadiouAlain Badious philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre.From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary, provide detailed explanations and engagements with his key concepts and some of his major interlocutors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a productive and enlightening way.Written by leading commentators from around the world, including Justin Clemens, Fran Author Biography Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. Table of Contents Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction by Steven Corcoran; Entries A-Z; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors. Review There is no doubt that The Badiou Dictionary will present a landmark. Its entries provide a series of red threads through the work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers, written with clarity and based on vast scholarship. Steve Corcoran gathered a most impressive group of outstanding scholars, each with an independent voice. Indispensible for the beginners, a treat for all who have been following the development of Badious thought over the last decades. -Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana Long Description Alain Badious philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre. From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary provide detailed explanations and engagements with his key concepts and some of his major interlocutors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a productive and enlightening way. Review Quote There is no doubt that The Badiou Dictionary will present a landmark. Its entries provide a series of red threads through the work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers, written with clarity and based on vast scholarship. Steve Corcoran gathered a most impressive group of outstanding scholars, each with an independent voice. Indispensible for the beginners, a treat for all who have been following the development of Badious thought over the last decades. Promotional "Headline" The first dictionary dedicated to Badious work, bringing together over 35 leading scholars in the field Description for Reader The first dictionary dedicated to Badious work, bringing together over 35 leading scholars in the field From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary provide detailed explanations and engagements with his key concepts and some of his major interlocutors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a productive and enlightening way. Alain Badious philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre. Find out more Read for free: weve published three entries on the Edinburgh University Press blog Cinema Deleuze Politics Notes on contributors See the full list of contributors Full List of Entries Absolute (The) Affirmationism Antiphilosophy Appearance, existence -The appearing of truth AXIOM Samuel Beckett Being The Body -Body and identification -Body and Subject -Body and Event -Body and Void -Body and Organs -Body and the present Georg Cantor Category Theory The Twentieth Century -The passion of the real -Destruction vs Subtraction Consistent and Inconsistent Multiplicity Cinema Communism Compossibility Decision Gilles Deleuze Democracy -Democracy as a figure of state -Democracy as a philosophical notion -Democratic materialism Derrida Dialectics Disaster Encyclopaedia Ethics and evil Event Existence/Non-Existence Factory/Worker FEMINISM Fidelity Forcing -Forcing in Infinitesimal Subversion -Forcing in Being and Event Generic Martin Heidegger History -Overturning the diametrical opposition between history and eternity Ideology -Ideology: Before 1968 -Ideology: After 1968 Inaesthetics Infinity Uses of the word Jew Justice Immanuel Kant Kierkegaard Linguistic Turn Love Maoist politics Marxist politics -The Four Fundamental Concepts of Marxism in TS -The post-Maoism of post-BE Matheme Metaphysics Metapolitics -Immanent conditions of politics Model Multiplicity -At the origins of the concept of pure multiplicity -Pure multiplicity Nature Nietzsche Nouveaux philosophes Numbers Surreal Numbers Object THE ONE Ontology, metaontology Pascal Philosophical situation Platonism/anti-Platonism Politics Psychoanalysis + Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis + Lacan RANCIERE and EQUALITY -A common polemics -Equality and thought -The axiomatic or procedural status of equality -Subject and sequence Representation Romanticism Sans-Papiers Jean-Paul Sartre Saint Paul -Paul and the Subjective Consequences of the Event -Paul and the present -The antinomies of militancy -Resurrection Saturation Schoenberg -How are we to understand such a philosophical relation? Sexuality Site Sophistry Baruch Spinoza Figures of the Subject* -Subject as sequence -The Faithful Subject -The Reactive Subject -The Obscure Subject - Resurrection Subtraction - undecidable, indiscernible, generic, unnameable -The undecidable -The indiscernible -The generic -The unnameable -Subtraction: affirmation and negation Suture -Ideological Suture -Ontological Suture -Philosophical Suture System Theatre Thermidorian Truth Topology Transcendental Regime The Two Universality VOID Wagner Woman, the feminine, sexual difference -SUBTRACTION: woman as particularity -SUBLIMATION: woman as a guarantee of universality for humanity -SUBLATION: woman as the going-beyond of the One Ludwig Wittgenstein Worlds -Worldliness and Capitalism Errata Figures of the Subject On p. 324, the word operative should read inoperative (rendering exactly the opposite meaning as that currently given). Pascal On p. 244, lines 23-5 contain a misplaced reference in parentheses that belongs to, and is included in full in, the entry on Kierkegaard and should simply be ignored here. Feature Around 150 main entries look at Badious ideas and influences, from capital/ism (parliamentarocapitalism) and equality to transcendental regime and void (unicity) 50 further linking entries connect lesser concepts and figures to wider concepts in Badious thought Includes an introduction to using the dictionary and to Badious body of work and a bibliography of further reading Contributers include: Alenka Zupancic, Christopher Norris, Justin Clemens, Nina Power, Bruno Besana, Frank Ruda Description for Sales People Badious work has an incredible breadth of engagement. The 200 entries in this dictionary provide a full survey of the extent and depth of his work. These are written by leading scholars in the field, giving expert insights into the work of Badiou while also reflecting the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a way that is productive and enlightening for readers. Description for Teachers/Educators Philosophy; Critical Theory; Art Theory; Literary Theory; Politics Details ISBN0748640967 Author Steven Corcoran Short Title BADIOU DICT Publisher Edinburgh University Press Language English ISBN-10 0748640967 ISBN-13 9780748640966 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Steven Corcoran DEWEY 194 Series Philosophical Dictionaries UK Release Date 2015-07-31 NZ Release Date 2015-07-31 Pages 424 Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-07-31 Audience General AU Release Date 2015-10-15 Alternative 9780748640973 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780748640966
Book Title: The Badiou Dictionary
ISBN: 9780748640966
Subject Area: Political Science
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Author: Steven Corcoran
Publication Name: The Badiou Dictionary
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
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Publication Year: 2015
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Number of Pages: 424 Pages
