Badiou and his interlocutors: lectures, interviews and responses

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The World Turned Upside Down -- Part One Lectures -- 1 In Search of the Lost Real -- 2 Cinema and Philosophy -- 3 The Common Preoccupation of Art and Philosophy -- Part Two Presentations -- 4 Badiou's Concept of History -- 5 Deleuze's Badiou -- 6 Mathematics in the Bedroom: Sex, the Signifier and the Smallest Whole Number -- 7 From Prohibition to Affirmation: On Challenges and Possibilities of a Badiouian Philosophy of Art -- 8 Woman's Adventures with/in the Universal -- 9 An Inessential Art?: Positioning Cinema in Alain Badiou's Philosophy -- Part Three Essays -- 10 Subjected to Formalization: Formalization and Method in the Philosophy of Alain Badiou -- 11 Everything Must Become Nothing (and Vice Versa): Love and Abstraction in Badiou and Lacan -- 12 Where Thought Is Not -- 13 The Priority of Conditions: On the Relationship between Mathematics and Poetry in Being and Event -- Part Four Interviews with Alain Badiou -- 14 Love, the Revolution - and Alain Badiou -- 15 'The Movement of Emancipation' -- Part Five Encomium -- 16 The Beginner -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

"This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou -- one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of history, Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original essays by young and established scholars in Australia and New Zealand addressing the key concerns of Badiou's 2015 visit to the Antipodal region and the work he presented there. With new material by Badiou previously unpublished in English this volume is a valuable overview of his recent thinking. Critical responses by distinguished and gifted Badiou scholars writing outside of the European context make this text essential reading for anyone interested in the development and contemporary reception of Badiou's thought."--Bloomsbury Publishing