Table of Contents

Peter Hallward, Introduction 1. Etienne Balibar, 'The History of Truth: Alain Badiou in French Philosophy' 2. Jean-Luc Nancy, 'Philosophy Without Conditions' 3. Ray Brassier, 'Nihil Unbound: Remarks on Subtractive Ontology and Thinking Capitalism' 4. Jean-Toussaint Desanti, 'Some Remarks on the Intrinsic Ontology of Alain Badiou' 5. Todd May, 'Badiou and Deleuze on the One and the Many' 6. Daniel Smith, ''Badiou & Deleuze on the Ontology of Mathematics' 7. Daniel Bensaïd, 'Badiou and the Miracle of the Event' 8. Peter Dews, 'States of Grace: The Excess of the Demand in Badiou's Ethics of Truth' 9. Ernesto Laclau, 'An Ethics of Militant Engagement' 10. Alberto Toscano, 'Communism as Separation' 11. Bruno Bosteels, 'On the Subject of the Dialectic' 12. Slavoj Zizek, 'From Purification to Subtraction: Badiou and the Real' 13. Ed Pluth & Dominiek Hoens, 'What if the Other is Stupid? Badiou and Lacan on "Logical Time"' 14. Alenka Zupancic, 'The Fifth Condition' 15. Alex García Düttmann, 'What Remains of Fidelity After Serious Thought' 16. Jean-Jacques Lecercle, 'Badiou's Poetics' 17. Jacques Ranciere, 'Aesthetics, Inaesthetics, Anti-Aesthetics' Alain Badiou, Afterword

About the Author

Peter Hallward lectures at Kings College, London.

Reviews

"Alain Badiou enacts a return to full-blown philosophy, striking as a thunder into the morass of postmodernist sophisms and platitudes. His work aims at the very heart of politically correct radical intellectuals, undermining the foundations of their mode of life!" - Slavoj Zizek; "One of the most important philosophers writing today." - Joan Copjec"