the act
and antiphilosophers, 28n1, 38–40, 75–82, 87–91
versus discourse, 151–157, 170
speech act, 176
Alain Badiou: Philosophy and Its Conditions (ed. G. Riera), 37n11
Alemán, Jorge, 7n6
Anti-Christ, The (Nietzsche), 74
antiphilosophy/antiphilosophers
and Christianity, 83–90
defined, 16n5, 27, 62–64, 67–69, 74–82
versus philosophy, 116–118. See also propositions
and psychoanalysts, 9–11
self as subject, 53–54
stylistics, 176–180
See also contemporaneity; sophistics
“Anti-Philosophy: Plato and Lacan” (Badiou), 23n14
archiaesthetic act, 38–39, 59, 80, 82, 89, 152–153, 167
Aristotle, 30–32
Badiou, Alain: works of
“Anti-Philosophy: Plato and Lacan,” 23n14
Being and Event, 5, 13, 21, 22, 105n1
Casser en deux l’histoire du monde, 76n2
Five Lessons on Wagner, 179n10
“Lacan et Platon: le mathème est-il une idée?”, 23n14
“Logologie contre ontologie,” 33n6
Manifesto for Philosophy, 3n3, 14n3, 16n5, 22
“Of an Obscure Disaster,” 18n8
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy, 16n5
“The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself,” 16n5, 29n2
“Silence, solipsisme, sainteté,” 35n8
Theoretical Writings, 58n1
Theory of the Subject, 20–21
“Who Is Nietzsche?”, 36n10
Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations (Johnston), 58n2
Badiou fuera de sus límites (ed. C. Gómez and A. Uzín), 7n6
“Badiou without Žižek” (Bosteels), 58n2
Balibar, Étienne, 65
Being and Event (Badiou), 5, 13, 21, 22, 105n1
Bosteels, Bruno, 13n1, 37n11, 58n2
term translation note, 65–66
“Can Change Be Thought?” (Bosteels), 37n11
Cartesian cogito, 5–6
Casser en deux l’histoire du monde (Badiou), 76n2
on antiphilosophy, 14n3, 23n14, 63–64, 64n6
and linguistics/philosophy seminar, 70
on sophists, 14n3, 15n4, 23n14, 30–33
Christianity
and antiphilosophers, 83– 90, 114–115
Wittgenstein on, 74, 83–86, 88–91, 153–154, 157
Cohen, Paul, 17n7–18
Collège International de Philosophie, 23, 70
Comment écrivent les philosophes? (Soulez), 54n18
Complete Works (Plato, ed. J. Cooper), 34n7
Conditions (Badiou), 14, 16, 24, 35
Confessions (Rousseau), 68n2, 87
Confessions (Saint Augustine), 157
Consequences of Pragmatism (Rorty), 2, 41, 43n1, 58n1, 61n4
contemporaneity, 25, 27–28, 36–37, 58, 67–69
Crary, Alice, 43n1
Culture and Value (Wittgenstein), 82n3
“Deep Disquietudes” (Sass), 13n1
Derrida, Jacques, 16, 16n5, 163
mentioned, 42, 69, 75, 117, 164, 175
Dewey, John, 42–43
Differend: Phrases in Dispute, The (Lyotard), 14n3
Diogenes, 69
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 39, 84, 86
Ecce Homo (Nietzsche), 87
École Normale Supérieure, 13, 76n2
Écrits (Lacan), 48n8
“El adversario y el doble en la filosofía de Badiou” (Gómez), 7n6
“Ethics, Imagination, and the Tractatus” (Diamond), 53n17
Five Lessons on Wagner (Badiou), 179n10
Fonteneau, Françoise, 48n9
Foucault, Michel, 16n5
Freud, Sigmund, 5–9, 9n9, 21–22, 22n13
Gómez, Carlos, 7n6
Gorgias, 14n3, 15, 18, 23n12, 32
Guattari, Félix, 34n7
Heidegger, Art and Politics (Lacoue-Labarthe), 2n2, 3n3
Heidegger, Martin, 2n2, 31–32, 178–179, 178n9, 179n11
Holzwege (Heidegger), 178n9, 179n11
“hontology” (Lacan), 35
Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel (Cassin), 15n4, 23n14, 30–31, 63–64
Just Gaming (Lyotard and Thébaud), 14n3
Kant, Immanuel, 7, 42, 43, 96, 111
“Keeping Philosophy Pure” (Rorty), 41, 43n1
Kierkegaard, Søren, 53m, 69, 71, 83, 87, 94, 95
on ‘the act,’ 59
and analyst role, 3–5, 23n14, 52
and antiphilosophy, 6–9, 7n6, 68, 74, 83, 87
Badiou on, 5–6, 20–25, 35, 38–39, 55, 148–149
and Christianity, 83
on Freud, 7–9
‘linguistery,’ 20
mentioned, 1, 13, 16n5, 53, 66, 67, 69, 71, 136
on psychosis, 7–9, 48, 50–52, 166
quote in waiting room, 88
seminars, 4, 8, 9n9, 23, 24, 41, 48, 53, 158
on Wittgenstein, 8, 41–42, 47–52, 54, 145–146, 166
“Lacan en antiphilosophe” (Soler), 7n6
“Lacan et Platon” (Badiou), 23n14
Lacan with the Philosophers (conference), 23–24
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 2n2, 3n3
language
axioms (Wittgenstein’s), 176–178
of mathematics/proof, 173
role of, 30. See also sophists/sophistics
“L’antiphilosophie” (Milner), 7n6
“L’antiphilosophie selon Lacan” (Regnault), 7n6
“Law against Christianity” (Nietzsche), 35n8
L’Effet sophistique (Cassin), 14n3, 23n14
Leibniz, Gottfried, 97, 98, 105
Lenin, Vladimir, 21
Les Ennemis des philosophes (Masseau), 7n6
L’Éthique du silence (Fonteneau), 48n9
“L’Étourdit” (Lacan), 30
Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore (ed. G.H. von Wright), 86n4
logic. See propositions
Logics of Worlds (Badiou), 19n9, 32n5
“Logologie contre ontologie” (Badiou), 33n6
Lucretian atomism, 98–99
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Monk), 84n1, 158
Lyotard, Jean-François, 14n3, 16n5
Maddy, Penelope, 13n1
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 53–54, 58–59, 157
Manifesto for Philosophy (Badiou), 3n3, 14n3, 16n5, 22
Marx, Karl, 16n5, 21, 22, 22n13
Masseau, Didier, 7n6
mathematics
propositions, 101, 103–106, 121, 123–132, 134
remainder in, 110–111
theorems, 141–142
Wittgenstein on, 71, 111, 133–134, 137–140, 143, 172–173, 179–180
McGuinness, Brian, 65
Miller, Jacques-Alain, 1, 8n8, 57, 158
misogyny, 95–96
“Monsieur A” (Lacan), 7n6
mystical element
and the act, 151–152
versus thought, 107–109
and the unsayable, 55, 90–91, 100, 121, 143, 167
Wittgenstein and, 11, 51, 80–82, 93, 173–174
New Wittgenstein, The (ed. A. Crary and R. Read), 43n1, 53n17
Nietzsche, Friedrich
as antiphilosopher, 38–39, 68, 68n1, 75–76, 76n2
archipolitical act, 38, 39, 59, 76, 76n2, 89–90
and Christianity, 83, 85, 89–90
on philosphers, 34, 35, 35n8, 36, 74
on Plato, 143
and “remainder,” 94
on the unevaluatable, 90, 90n9
as Wittgenstein’s predecessor, 81–82
on writing, 153
nomination, 107–109
“nonsense,” 77–78, 112, 115–116, 120
Notas antifilosócfias (Alemán), 7n6
objet petit a, 4
“Of an Obscure Disaster” (Badiou), 18n8
“Only a God Can Save Us” (Heidegger), 179n11
oral versus written text, 151–153, 161–165
Other Side of Psychoanalysis, The (Lacan), 8, 35n8, 41, 47, 48n9, 146, 158
Parsifal (Wagner), 179, 179n10
Pascal, Blaise
and antiphilosophy, 6, 28, 28n25, 34, 69, 117
and mathematics, 71
and misogyny, 95
Perloff, Marjorie, 54n18
Philosophical Fragments (Kierkegaard), 60, 69n3
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
Cavell on, 60–61
idea of the rule, 18
versus Tractatus, 19, 41–42, 46, 70, 162
Philosophy of Right (Hegel), 58n1
Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow (Cavell), 59
Pocket Pantheon (Badiou), 16n5
poetry, 82, 108–109, 177–178, 180
propositions
elementary and complex, 101, 103–106, 121, 123–132
of logic, 130–131, 133–136, 178
nonsensical, 53, 53n17, 118–119
See also mathematics
Prototractatus (ed. McGuinness, Nyberg, von Wright), 91n10
psychoanalysts/psychoanalysis, 1–11, 20–24, 37, 42, 50–55, 166
Psychoanalytical Act, The (Lacan seminar), 4
psychosis, 47–48, 50–52. See also Lacan
“Radical Antiphilosophy” (Bosteels), 13n1
Read, Rupert, 43n1
Regnault, François, 7n6
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (Wittgenstein), 138, 139, 171, 175
“Restricted Action” (Mallarmé), 54n18
“The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself” (Badiou), 16n5, 29n2
Rimbaud, Arthur, 169
Rorty, Richard
on Cavell, 61n4
on contemporaety, 58
on Dewey, 42
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 68, 68n2, 83, 94
Rue Descartes (journal), 70
Russell, Bertrand, 86, 86n4, 153
Saint Augustine, 157
Sass, Louis, 13n1
Schlick, Moritz, 155
Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (ed./trans. C. Middleton), 68n1, 76n2
Seminar of Jacques Lacan (ed. J-A Miller), 8n8, 158
“sense of the world,” 112–115, 120
“Silence, solipsisme, sainteté” (Badiou), 35n8
Soler, Colette, 7n6
Sophist, The (Plato), 34n7, 118
sophists/sophistics
and antiphilosophy, 22–25, 34, 36, 40, 41, 48, 75
Deleuze on, 34n7
modern sophistics, 13–20, 15n4, 18n8, 44–45
and Wittgenstein, 18n8, 138–139
Soulez, Antonia, 54n18
speech act, 176
state of affairs, 98–101, 103–106, 120–121, 123–125. See also propositions
“subject,” in Tractatus, 146–149
“substance,” in Tractatus, 97–100
Tarrying with the Negative (Žižek), 7n7
Tätigkeit (act), 62n5
terms, translator’s note on, 65–66
Thébaud, Jean-Loup, 14n3
Theoretical Writings (Badiou), 58n1
Theory of the Subject (Badiou), 20–21, 22
“This Philosophy Which Is Not One” (Johnston), 7n6
A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Mallarmé), 54n18, 156
Tolstoy, Leo, 84
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein)
and antiphilosophy, 16–17, 47–55, 53n17, 62, 121
compared to Mallarmé, 156
versus Investigations, 19, 46, 70, 162–163
“subject” in, 146–149
“substance” in, 97–100
syntax of, 138, 166–169, 177–178
translator’s note on terms, 65–66
Twilight of the Idols (Nietzsche), 90n9
unsayable/sayable
and Christianity, 84–86
“half-said” (Lacan), 24
and mystical element, 19, 55, 80–82
Nietzsche versus Wittgenstein on, 89–92
and sense/nonsense, 115–117
and writing, 151–152, 166–168, 174–178
See also mystical element; poetry
Uzín, Angelina, 7n6
von Ficker, Ludwig, 91, 152–153
von Wright, G. H., 82n3, 86n4, 91n10, 139n1
Wagner, Richard, 179
Welcome to the Desert of the Real! (Žižek), 58n2
What Is Philosophy? (Deleuze and Guattari), 34n7
“Who Is Nietzsche?” (Badiou), 36n10
“Why I am a Destiny” (Nietzsche), 87
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
on Christianity, 74, 83–86, 88–91, 153–154, 157
and Heidegger, 178–180
Lacan on, 8, 41–42, 47–52, 54, 145–146, 166
language axioms, 176–180
on mathematics, 71, 111, 133–134, 137–140, 143, 172–173, 179–180
in military, 73–74
and Nietzsche, 74, 81–82, 83–92, 143
and philosophy’s legacy, 34–39
on suicide, 86–87
writing style, 45–47, 53, 138, 166–169, 174–180
Wittgenstein: A Life (McGuinness), 158
“Wittgensteinian Anti-Philosophy” (Maddy), 13n1
“The Wittgensteinian Event” (Cavell), 59–60
Wittgenstein’s Ladder (Perloff), 54n18