Badiou and philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
I. Philosophy's mathematical condition -- - What is post-Cantorian thought? Transfinitude and the conditions of philosophy - Tzuchien Tho -- - The set-theoretical nature of Badiou's ontology and Lautman's dialectic of problematic ideas - Sean Bowden -- - Badiou's Platonism: the mathematical forms of post-Cantorian set-theory - Dimon Duffy -- - Sets, categories and topoi: approaches to ontology in Badiou's later work - Anindya Bhattacharyya -- - II. Philosophical notions and orientations -- - The black sheep of materialism: the theory of the subject - Ed Pluth -- - A critique of Alain Badiou's denial of time in his philosophy of events - James Williams -- - Doing without ontology: a Quinean pragmatist approach to Badiou - Talia Morag -- - Towards a new political subject: Badiou between Marx and Althusser - Nina Power -- - III. Philosophical figures -- - 'The Greatest of Our Dead': Badiou and Lacan - Justin Clemens and Adam J. Bartlett -- - Badiou and Sartre: freedom, from imagination to chance - Brian A. Smith -- - Badiou's relation of Heidegger in Theory of the subject - Graham Harman -- - One divides into two: Badiou's Critique of Deleuze - Jon Roffe
A collection of 13 essays that directly addresses the work of Alain Badiou, focusing specifically on the philosophical content of his work and the various connections he established with both his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. It examines Badiou's work through the lens of a number of thinkers and themes