Alain Badiou

Theory of the Subject

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Produktbeschreibung

Theory of the Subject, first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou's most important works, laying many of the foundations for his magnum opus, Being and Event. Here Badiou seeks to provide a theory of the subject for Marxism through a study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, offering a major contribution to Marxism, as well as to the larger debate regarding the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. The book also provides a history and theory of structuralism and poststructuralism, a unique evaluation of the achievements of French Maoism during the 1970s and the significance of the events of May 1968, and breathtaking analyses of art and literature. As a theoretical synthesis, the book is extraordinary in terms of its originality, breadth and clarity. This is arguably Badiou's most creative and passionate book, encompassing the entire battlefield of contemporary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis. Available for the first time in English and now in paperback, this is a must-read for anyone interested in this lively and highly original thinker.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780826496737
• ISBN-10: 0826496733
• Artikelnr.: 25092102

Autorenporträt

Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Introduction Author's Preface to the English translation
Preface to the French edition 1. The Place of the Subjective 2. The Subject
under the Signifiers of Exception 3. Lack and Destruction 4. A Materialist
Reversal of Materialism 5. Subjectivation and Subjective Proces 6.
Topologies of Ethics Thematic Index Name Index

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Translator's Introduction \ Author's Preface to the English translation \ Preface to the French edition \ 1. The Place of the Subjective \ 2. The Subject under the Signifiers of Exception \ 3. Lack and Destruction \ 4. A Materialist Reversal of Materialism \ 5. Subjectivation and Subjective Proces \ 6. Topologies of Ethics \ Thematic Index \ Name Index

Rezensionen

A rare achievement, a true philosophical classic, comparable to only two or three books in the twentieth century, such as Heidegger's Being and Time. The difference is that, if Being and Time left its mark on twentieth-century thought, Theory of the Subject announces the thought of the twenty-first century. It opens up the path that Badiou followed in his two later classics, Being and Event and Logics of Worlds, but it enforces this opening with a violent freshness which far surpasses its later developments. So beware, reader: when you open this book, you hold in your hands proof that philosophers of the status of Plato, Hegel and Heidegger are still walking around today! Slavoj Zizek