... types of religiosity. In this essay, I link Alain Badiou's philosophy to this concern, examining in particular how his approach to number and appreciation for Saint Paul are fueled by a similar lure of immediacy. To illustrate this claim, I juxtapose Badiou's work to the ways in which nineteenth-century...

... on the apostle Paul, The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans . By contrast, Alain Badiou's Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism serves as the most extended example of Badiou's philosophical system, Paul's fidelity to Christ's resurrection being the model of a Badiouian militant...

...Slavoj Žižek Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Slavoj Ziiek Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou In the history of Marxism, the reference to psychoanalysis played a precise strategic role: psychoanalysis was expected to close the gap by explaining why...

...Jon Bialecki This essay takes note of the fact that Alain Badiou published both Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism and Deleuze: The Clamor of Being in the same year and of the resulting controversy that has emerged from Badiou's (and his followers') critique of the propriety...

... to become Christian in the contemporary world? After outlining Alain Badiou's theory of the event and arguing for its anthropological usefulness, I deploy it in analyzing in some detail the history of a community's conversion in Papua New Guinea. While Badiou's model brings out many aspects of this case...

...? A friend of mine once provocatively described Alain Badiou as a philosopher who is first and foremost a communist before being, or perhaps even without being, a Marxist. A passage from Of an Obscure Disaster...

... [ Althusser Louis ]. 2013 . “ On the Cultural Revolution .” Translated by Smith Jason E. . Décalages 1 , no. 1 : 1 – 19 . Badiou Alain . 2005 . Metapolitics . Translated by Barker Jason . London : Verso . Badiou Alain . 2009a . L’hypothèse communiste . Paris...

..., Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, Ernesto Laclau, and others. It is claimed that, apart from very general ontological questions concerning the political structure of social being, consequences have to be considered along two lines: First, democracy as a regime in which the absence of any ultimate ground...

... Taubes’s 1987 Heidelberg lectures on “the political theology of Paul.”1 It resurfaces a few years later in philosopher Alain Badiou’s 1997 reading of Paul as “the poet-thinker of the event...

... References Althusser Louis . 1971 . “ Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon .” In Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays , translated by Brewster Ben , 11 – 23 . London : New Left Books . Badiou Alain . 2001 . Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil . London : Verso...

... Alain Badiou is the great contemporary thinker of axioms. In each case, what Badiou calls a ‘‘truth-procedure’’ proceeds as the assertion of an axi- omatic principle, one subtracted from the mediation of existing forms of knowledge, recognition, or community. As a rule, ‘‘the real is only encoun...

... – 42 . Badiou Alain . 2009 . Theory of the Subject . Translated by Bosteels Bruno . London : Continuum . Badiou Alain . 2012 . The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings . Translated by Elliott Gregory . London : Verso . Bosteels Bruno . 2011...

... possibilities of politics not solely located within the earlier genealogical form of inquiry. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 Foucault Marxism strategy politics affirmation References Badiou Alain . 1982 . Théorie du sujet . Paris...

... . Badiou and Politics . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Dean Jodi . 2012 . The Communist Horizon . London : Verso . Gallino Luciano . 2011 . Finanzcapitalismo: La civiltà del denaro in crisi (Finance Capitalism: The Civilization of Money in Crisis) . Turin : Einaudi...

... .” Review of African Political Economy 37 , no. 123 : 25 – 40 . doi:10.1080/03056241003637870 . Badiou Alain . 2008 . “ The Communist Hypothesis .” New Left Review , no. 49 . http://newleftreview.org/?view=2705 . ———. 2010 . The Communist Hypothesis . Translated by Macey David...

... adequately a particularly gruesome battle in the Napoleonic Wars—but it may as well have been. They are, after all, literally set pieces that Alain Badiou resorts to when, taking a cue from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unfinished screenplay Saint Paul, he juxtaposes what he considers...

... studies at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including The Actuality of Communism (2011), Badiou and Politics (2011), and Marx and Freud in Latin America (2012), and the translator of numerous books by Alain Badiou, including Theory of the Subject (2009), Wittgenstein’s...

... such processes can be undertaken today. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Bacon Francis . ( 1625 ) 1851 . “ Of Seditions and Troubles .” In The Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral , 74 – 81 . London : Whitaker and Co. Badiou Alain . 2008 . “ ‘We Need a Popular...

... University and editor of Diacritics: A Review of Contempo- rary Criticism. His teaching and research interests include Latin American literature, contemporary philosophy, and political theory. His book Badiou and Politics is forthcoming from Duke University Press, as is his translation of Badiou’s Can...

... antagonism aftereffects that can be audited and enunciated, ren­ dered and reinscribed, and, in the final analysis (most importantly), en­ dorsed. Revisiting Alain Badiou s 1988 L etre et I evenement (in hindsight, an impor­ tant moment in the history of post-Althusserian French Marxism), Slavoj Zizek...