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by Badiou, Alain

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A collection of essays of the author. Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', it goes on to propose a definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state.

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  • Full title :Conditions / translated by Steven Corcoran

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A collection of essays of the author. Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', it goes on to propose a definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state.

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  • Publication Date:2008

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Originaltitel: Conditions

A collection of essays of the author. Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', it goes on to propose a definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state.

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  • Description:314 p.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0826498272, 9780826498274
  • oclc:ocn475314253
  • Dewey Decimal:194

Table of Contents

The Subtractive: Preface by Francois Wahl; I. Philosophy Itself; 1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself; 2. Definition of philosophy; 3. What is a philosophical institution?; II. Philosophy and Poetry; 4. The philosophical recourse to the poem; 5. Mallarme's method: subtraction and isolation; 6. Rimbaud's method: interruption; III. Philosophy and Mathematics; 7. Philosophy and mathematics; 8. Conference on subtraction; 9. Truth: forcing and unnameabl IV. Philosophy and Politics; 10. Philosophy and politics; V. Philosophy and Love; 11. What is love?; VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis; 12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis; 13. Subject and infinite; 14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and Plato; VII. Writing of the Generic; 15. Writing of the generic: Samuel Beckett.

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