... of zero and surplus—since it can be established as servile, it can be destroyed as valueless.” 21 Raw “(in)existence” lacks relation between other identities and differences, presenting a whole in Badiou’s presentation of existence, and this rawness lacks the intrinsic value of the empty set. 22...

...- nism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005). Alain Badiou, Being and Event, Oliver Feltham, trans. (New York: Continuum, 2005). Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics, Alberto Toscano, trans. (Stanford: Stanford University Press...

... of fearing for the self” (AE, 146). Both Levinas and Meister believe this is a way to counter the subordination of sense/saying to the equivalency of the said/interest, although Meis- ter supplements this ethical paradigm with Alan Badiou’s version of an eventalized “truth,” a retrospective process...

... what Alain Badiou might call an “event” in refer- 122 qui parle fall/winter 2009 vol.18, no.1 ence to the ontological order, but beyond Badiou we must consider this moment as the “fi rst event,” the foundational event (which we have explained in PL at §15, 262ff Notice...

... . Badiou Alain . Lacan: Anti-philosophy 3 . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . Best Stephen M. None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . Derrida Jacques . Before the Law: The Complete Text of Préjugés...

... Copyright © 2019 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2019 Badiou Alain . Mallebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2 , translated by Smith Jason E. and Spitzer Susan . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . Benjamin Walter . Origin of the German Trauerspiel...

... in order to recognize a more radical problem for Left political praxis. Today, as Alain Badiou writes, it is somehow prohibited not to be a democrat . . . all subjectivity suspected of not being democratic is deemed pathological The long, dark night of our fin-de-siècle has sparked...

... could take this diagnosis a step beyond the liberal per- ception of a crisis in public discourse in order to recognize a more radical problem for Left political praxis. Today, as Alain Badiou writes, it is somehow prohibited not to be a democrat . . . all subjectivity suspected of not being...

... What is crucial here is the last word, sentir: the frag- mentation of the self, that is, corresponds not to an eclipse of self- hood, but on the contrary—and in a seeming paradox—it allows the subject to feel himself, to experience an affective self-identity. Alain Badiou has written...

.... Critique and Postcritique . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Badiou Alain , and Cassin Barbara . There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan , translated by Spitzer Susan and Reinhard Kenneth . New York : Columbia University Press...

... philosophical machin- ery. But a commitment to the proletariat is not a philosophical ma- chinery, like Žižek’s understanding of his Lacanian and Hegelian commitments. Rather, as Žižek puts it, “‘proletariat’ is the subject- agent of revolutionary Truth” (MC, 93). Here he follows Alain Badiou...

... . 15. Badiou, Adventure , 81 . 16. Nancy, “Of Divine Places,” 143 . See also, e.g., Nancy, “Un jour, les dieux se retirent . . . ” 17. Christopher Fynsk’s foreword to The Inoperative Community describes Nancy’s piece w“Of Divine Places” as an “‘experiment’ without faith— une...

... Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Books Received Badiou, Alain. The Incident at Antioch/L’Incident d’Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts/Tragédie en trois actes. Trans. Susan Spitzer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Plato’s Republic: A Dialogue in 16 Chapters...

... as ancient as Plato in Wittgenstein’s break with philosophy, 80 Alain Badiou places Wittgenstein in a smaller group, in the company of Friedrich Nietzsche and Lacan, writing that “anti-philosophy is always what, at its very extremes, states the new duty of philosophy, or its new possibility in the figure...

...: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 2011. Altman, Joel B. The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Badiou, Alain. Second Manifesto for Philosophy. Trans. Louise Burchill. Cambridge: Polity, 2009...

... being in common— than some- thing like the maintenance of an open horizon, an effective relation to sense. In The Truth of Democracy, with reference to Badiou’s “communist hypothesis,” Nancy writes: “‘communism’ must not be put forward as a hypothesis, as we see in Alain Badiou . . . but must...

... as at. 3. A similar position is represented today by Alain Badiou, who has updated central motifs of modernist truth aesthetics. It is thus no coincidence that Badiou is also highly skeptical of the fi eld of con- temporary art and calls for an aesthetic return to the early...

..., and Gaines (New York: Routledge, 2000). Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans. and intro. Peter Hallward (New York: Verso, 2001). Ann Banfield, The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism (New York: Cambridge University...

... of Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive (Northwestern University Press, 2005), Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcen- dental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (Northwestern University Press, 2008), and Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change (Northwestern...

... to play in this revival? Writing in a spirit similar to that of Douzinas and Žižek in his 2011 work The Rebirth of History, Alain Badiou offers one ex- treme answer. He describes “human rights” as nothing more than Manfredi: Recent Histories and Uncertain Futures 5...