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The first dictionary dedicated to Badiou's work, bringing together over 35 leading scholars in the field From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary provide detailed explanations and engagements with his key concepts and some of his major interlocutors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a productive and enlightening way. Alain Badiou's philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre. Find out more Read for free: we've published three entries on the Edinburgh University Press blog CinemaDeleuzePoliticsNotes on contributorsSee the full list of contributorsFull List of Entries Absolute (The) Affirmationism Antiphilosophy Appearance, existence -The appearing of truth AXIOM Samuel Beckett Being The Body -Body and identification -Body and Subject -Body and Event -Body and Void -Body and Organs -Body and the present Georg Cantor Category Theory The Twentieth Century -The passion of the real -Destruction vs Subtraction Consistent and Inconsistent Multiplicity Cinema Communism Compossibility Decision Gilles Deleuze Democracy -Democracy as a figure of state -Democracy as a philosophical notion -Democratic materialism Derrida Dialectics Disaster Encyclopaedia Ethics and evil Event Existence/Non-Existence Factory/Worker FEMINISM Fidelity Forcing -Forcing in 'Infinitesimal Subversion -Forcing in Being and Event Generic Martin Heidegger History -Overturning the diametrical opposition between history and eternity Ideology -Ideology: Before 1968 -Ideology: After 1968 Inaesthetics Infinity Uses of the word 'Jew' Justice Immanuel Kant Kierkegaard Linguistic Turn Love Maoist politics Marxist politics -The Four Fundamental Concepts of Marxism in TS -The 'post-Maoism' of post-BE Matheme Metaphysics Metapolitics -Immanent conditions of politics Model Multiplicity -At the origins of the concept of pure multiplicity -Pure multiplicity Nature Nietzsche Nouveaux philosophes Numbers Surreal Numbers Object THE ONE Ontology, metaontology Pascal Philosophical situation Platonism/anti-Platonism Politics Psychoanalysis + Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis + Lacan RANCIERE and EQUALITY -A common polemics -Equality and thought -The axiomatic or procedural status of equality -Subject and sequence Representation Romanticism Sans-Papiers Jean-Paul Sartre Saint Paul -Paul and the Subjective Consequences of the Event -Paul and 'the present' -The antinomies of militancy -Resurrection Saturation Schoenberg -How are we to understand such a philosophical relation? Sexuality Site Sophistry Baruch Spinoza Figures of the Subject* -Subject as sequence -The Faithful Subject -The Reactive Subject -The Obscure Subject - Resurrection Subtraction - undecidable, indiscernible, generic, unnameable -The undecidable -The indiscernible -The generic -The unnameable -Subtraction: affirmation and negation Suture -Ideological Suture -Ontological Suture -Philosophical Suture System Theatre Thermidorian Truth Topology Transcendental Regime The Two Universality VOID Wagner Woman, the feminine, sexual difference -SUBTRACTION: woman as particularity -SUBLIMATION: woman as a guarantee of universality for humanity -SUBLATION: woman as the going-beyond of the One Ludwig Wittgenstein Worlds -Worldliness and Capitalism Errata Figures of the Subject On p. 324, the word 'operative' should read 'inoperative' (rendering exactly the opposite meaning as that currently given). Pascal On p. 244, lines 23-5 contain a misplaced reference in parentheses that belongs to, and is included in full in, the entry on Kierkegaard and should simply be ignored here.

Badiou is the first comprehensive introduction to Alain Badiou’s thought to appear in any language; it provides a highly readable discussion of each of the basic features of his ontology. Peter Hallward demonstrates in detail and in depth why Badiou’s ongoing philosophical project should be recognized as the most resourceful and inspiring of his generation.

In the light of some recent criticisms, this text seeks to promote a debate that takes place on two fronts: on the one hand, the logic of the origin of logic and, on the other hand, the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism. To this end, some texts published by Alain Badiou towards the end of the 1960s, in which he polemicizes with Jacques-Alain Miller around the concepts of \"suture\" and \"subject\" (Zizek), are recovered in order to situate both the different positions and the coherent reconsiderations throughout his intellectual trajectory. Indeed, from \"The Concept of the Model\" to his most recent trilogy (Theory of the Subject, Being and the Event and Logic of Worlds), a perspective is proposed that, far from establishing hierarchies and subordinations, seeks to promote connections based on specificities and differences through that particular path that is philosophy. In this way it is possible to appreciate that, despite his critique of the primacy of the logic of the signifier, the concepts proposed by Jacques Lacan functioned as a notorious source of inspiration for Badiou, especially in relation to the subject of the unconscious.

Alain Badiou’s Being and Event is the most original and significant work of French philosophy to have appeared in recent decades. It is the magnum opus of a thinker who is widely considered to have re-shaped the character and set new terms for the future development of philosophy in France and elsewhere. This book has been written very much with a view to clarifying Badiou's complex and demanding work for non-specialist readers. It offers guidance on philosophical and intellectual context, key themes, reading the text, reception and influence; and further reading.

في هذا الكتاب الحواري المختصر، يقدم الفيلسوف الفرنسي آلان باديو للقراء مقدمة فريدة لنظامه الفكري، ملخصة في ثلاثية الوجود والحدث، ومنطق العوالم، وجوهر الحقائق. يأخذ شكل مقابلة ومحادثتين مع الأخذ في الاعتبار جمهورا عريضا دون أي معرفة مسبقة بعمله، يلامس الكتاب جميع المفاهيم الرئيسية لفلسفة باديو ويوضحها بأمثلة مناسبة. جولة حقيقية من القوة التربوية الوضوح، ربما يكون هذا هو أفضل مقدمة عامة واحدة لعمل هذا المفكر الغزير الإنتاج والملتزم، ويحتوي على مقابلة مع آلان باديو عقدت في 18 يونيو 2019 في باريس ومحاضرتين : \"الفلسفة بين الرياضيات والشعر\" و\"علم الوجود والرياضيات\".

The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results. Looking back on its publication Badiou declared: \"I had inscribed my name in the history of philosophy\". Later he was brave enough to admit that this inscription needed correction. The central elements of Badiou's philosophy only make sense when Being and Event is read through the corrective prism of its sequel, Logics of Worlds, published nearly twenty years later. At the same time as presenting the only complete overview of Badiou's philosophical project, this book is also the first to draw out the central component of Badiou's ontology: indifference. Concentrating on its use across the core elements Being and Event-the void, the multiple, the set and the event-Watkin demonstrates that no account of Badiou's ontology is complete unless it accepts that Badiou's philosophy is primarily a presentation of indifferent being. Badiou and Indifferent Being provides a detailed and lively section by section reading of Badiou's foundational work. It is a seminal source text for all Badiou readers.