INDEX

Absolute, the 5 –12 , 46 , 57 –8 , 109

Agamben, Giorgio 3 , 15 –16 , 18 –20 , 23 , 42 , 47 –9 , 62 –6 , 85 , 89 , 93 , 123

Agonism 80 –2 , 127

Althusser, Louis 94

Anarchy 47 –8

Arendt, Hannah 46 –7

Atonic worlds 7 –8 , 16 , 61 , 109

Augustine 42

Badiou, Alain xxiv –xxvi , 5 –8 , 14 , 21 –3 , 26 –7 , 41 , 53 –4 , 56 –2 , 68 –74 , 93 –5 , 108 , 115

Being-in-the-World xxiv , xxvi , 2 , 7 , 11 –12 , 28 –9 , 44 –6 , 64 , 76 , 87 , 92 , 101 , 113 , 125

Benjamin, Walter 84 –86 , 89

de la Boetie, Etienne 16

Bosteels, Bruno 25 , 27 , 59 –60 , 64

Coetzee, John M. 20

Cohen, Leonard 82

Complexity, of worlds xxviii , 109 –110 , 116 , 119 , 127 , 129

Condition

Badiou’s concept of xxviii , 93

politics as a condition of philosophy 93 –6

Decreation 50 –1 , 53 , 86

Degree of existence 2 –4 , 10 , 13 –15 , 24 , 32 , 45 , 73

Deleuze, Gilles 23 , 101 , 102 , 106

Derrida, Jacques 19 , 43 , 59 , 62 , 64

Destruction xxvii , 20 , 41 –2 , 51 , 105 , 117 –18 , 124

and disqualification 72 –5

and violence 84 –8

Badiou on 57 –9 , 68 –72

Dis-identification xxi , xxv , 15 , 20 , 24 , 30 , 44 , 52 , 92 , 98

Divine violence 85 –6

Dogmatism 21 –3 , 26

Esposito, Roberto 41 , 54 , 77 , 117

Ethics 90 –91

Evil 40 –3

and world formation 46 –51

as betrayal 49 –50

as destruction of the world 51 –6

and the passion of the real 53 –5

Foucault, Michel xxvi , 22 , 23 , 77 , 103 , 117

Groys, Boris 118 , 129

Hacking, Ian 116

Heidegger, Martin xxii , 2 , 17 , 25 , 43 , 99 , 106

Hobbes, Thomas xvi , 41 , 98 , 99

Homonymy

and axioms of the World 47 , 50 , 55 , 97 , 101 , 106

Identity

and dis-identification 13 –18 , 23 –24

identity politics 21 –22

Immunization 41 , 77 , 124

Inexistent, the 1 –5 , 10 –12 , 15 –18 , 25 , 49 , 69 , 72 , 88 , 91 , 103 , 116 , 121 , 127

Individuation xxix , 126

Infinity xxiii , xxvii , 6 –9 , 12 , 20 , 22 , 42 , 46 , 52 –4 , 66 , 91 , 94 , 110 –3 , 120 , 124 , 128

Justice 32 , 44 , 85 , 91 , 113

Kant, Immanuel 19 , 29 , 41 , 54 , 59 , 65 , 66 , 102

Kuhn, Thomas 116

Lacan, Jacques 13 , 14 , 43 , 50 , 65 , 94

Laclau, Ernesto 26 , 80

Lenin, Vladimir 98 , 99 , 105 , 106

Levinas, Emmanuel 22 , 59 , 60

Malevich, Kazimir 117 –120 , 122

Marx, Karl 97 , 99 , 105

Messianism 18 –21 , 26 , 49 , 63 –4 , 86

Metapolitics 64 –65 , 68 , 123 –4

Mouffe, Chantal 80

Nancy, Jean-Luc xxv , xviii , 29 , 55 , 110 –15

Nietzsche, Friedrich xxiii , xxvii , 42 , 56

Negation xxiii , xxvii , 3 , 4 , 17 –18 , 28 –9 , 36 –38 , 42 , 46 –8 , 64 , 71 , 76 –9 , 82 , 97 , 102 , 106 , 119 –122

Nihilism xv , xxiii , 124

active nihilism xxvii , 51 –2 , 54 , 88 , 128

imperfect nihilism 56

passive nihilism 56 , 88 , 128

Nothing, the xxiii , 2 , 9 , 16 , 34 , 44 , 77 , 100 , 128

Occupy! movement xx –xxii

Ontology 29 , 31 –6 , 40 –1 , 43 , 51 , 53 , 59 –60 , 68 , 69 , 72 , 74 , 80 , 82 , 98 , 108 , 114 , 126

Ontological mood xxv , 16 , 18 , 25 , 34 39 , 45 , 51 , 91 –3 , 100 , 120

Phenomenology xxii –xxiv , 13 , 16 , 29 , 72 , 94 , 100 –2

Philosophy

and politics 90 –9

philosopher as a conceptual persona 35 , 66 , 91 , 93 , 99

Phronesis xxviii , 104

Points, theory of 6 –8 , 11 , 61 –2 , 67 , 109

Political science 100 –5

Politicization

exemption from 119 –124

Nancy’s critique of 110 –5

Rancière, Jacques xxx–xxxii, 11 , 26 , 30 –2

Santner, Eric 25 , 32

Saramago, Jose 91

Schmitt, Carl 3 , 14 , 41 , 79 –80 , 84 , 88 , 99 , 108

Simplification, in politics 6 –8 , 62 , 107 –110

Spontaneism xxvi , 21 , 23 , 31

Stalin, Joseph 54 , 56 , 94 , 99 , 105

St. Paul 18 –21 , 26 , 49

Subject

and desubjectivation 15 –6

and (wo)men of the world 16 –8

definition of 13

emergence of xxv –xxvi , 14 –8 , 21 –6

obscure subject 17 , 24 , 26 , 30 , 42 , 46 , 51 , 61 , 78 , 92 , 119

reactive subject 13 , 17 , 24 , 26 , 28 , 42 , 51 , 79 , 102 , 106 , 119

Subtraction 9 , 13 –16 , 21 , 28 , 34 –5 , 37 , 41 , 53 , 87

Suture, Badiou’s concept of 94 –9 , 105 , 108 , 128

Taubes, Jacob 19 –20

Tensed worlds 8 , 110

Transcendental, the xxiii –xxv , 1 –4 , 9 –11 , 29 , 32

Transcendental disqualification 68 –74

Truth, Badiou’s concept of 26 , 29 , 42 –3 , 56 –62 , 68 –71 , 93 –6 , 109 –112

Universality xv –xvii , xxii –xxvi , 1 , 5 , 11 , 26 , 35 , 44 , 48 , 52 , 64 , 82 , 90 , 102 –3 , 113 –14 , 120 , 126

Unnameable, the xxvii , 41 , 56 –62 , 66 , 68 –70 , 72 , 74 , 90 , 105

Unspeakable, the 62 –6

Violence

and the political process 76 –82

as pure means 83 –8

defensive violence 83 –5

Voluntary servitude 16 –17

Weil, Simone 49 , 53

World, concept of xxiii –xxv

World disclosure xxiv , xxviii , 16 , 25 , 65 , 92 , 99 , 127

Wrong, the idea of 28 –35 , 42 , 45 , 49 , 53 , 75 , 78 , 82 , 89 , 98 , 103 , 108 , 125

Zizek, Slavoj 6 , 13 , 18 , 25 , 29 , 59 , 80 , 87