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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introducing Alain Badiou
Badiou in the world
The writing event
A Sartrean interrupted
The seductiveness of philosophy
Badiou’s philosophy
Event, subject, truth
The event, or, being and event
The event and its response
The subject
The mathemes
Reactive subject
The analogy of love
Chance and the subject
Truth(s)
The trajectory of a truth
The gamma diagram
The subtractive process
What is the generic?
Forcing
The unnameable
The return of Plato
The conditions for philosophy
The four truth procedures
Art
The example of the horses
Inaesthetics: defence of art as truth procedure
A brief interlude: Samuel Beckett
Love
Love and the infinite
What is love?
Love without risk
To hell with others
Love and the Christ event
Badiou and Tupac
Love versus desire
Political truths
Scientific/mathematical truths
The example of prime numbers
The value of numbers
In defence of the universal and the infinite
The question of scientism
Badiou’s ethics
Ethics and the act of thinking
No general ethics, no universal rights
A radical ethics
Circumstancing Badiou
Shattering comforts and anomalies
The communist idea
Beyond the individual
Where is the communist idea today?
Terror and disaster
Separating communism from politics
The role of the philosopher
Sarkozy: the man, the figure
Badiou on the barricades
“The red years”
Views of an event: variations on May ’68
Mao ’69?
Mao and egalitarianism
Khmer Rouge: “Je le regrette”
“What does a Jew want?”
The party and the state
Democracy: a “weak negation”
Global radical events
A revolutionary vs. a state revolutionary
Green is the new red, but really green
The novel philosopher
Constant questioning of reality
The rebirth of history
Select Bibliography of Alain Badiou
Author’s acknowledgements
Author biography
Index
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