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Being and event by Badiou A.
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Being and event Badiou A.
Language: English
Page: 560
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0826458319, 9780826458315
Publisher: Continuum
From Publishers Weekly
Two things are new in this much-anticipated translation of Badiou: the language and the preface. Both are instructive. Translator Oliver Feltham stayed "as close as possible to Badiou's syntax" but "at the price of losing fluidity." The logic behind this sacrifice being that Badiou's syntax does its own philosophical work; the unfortunate result being that many sentences, though elegant in French, are wounded in English. For example, this hop-along on Marxism: "That the dialectic of its existence is not that of the one of authority to the multiple of the subject." Thankfully, Badiou addresses such dissonance and his larger philosophical goals in an indispensable new preface-without which the 37 weighty meditations might be lost to the layperson. Even with the new preface, those reading Badiou or Continental philosophy for the first time might experience something intellectually akin to running into the ocean. (Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil is a slimmer, more accessible introduction to this novelist, and playwright and professor at Ecole Normale Superieure.) Otherwise it takes a miracle to understand the four theses of this work, organized as they are into a chevron consisting of Being, Event, Truth, Subject. Badiou is concerned with the potential for profound, transformative innovation in any situation. His approach is part mathematical (Candor's set theory), part rationalist (Anglo-American), part poetic (Continental) and part textual (11 legends of philosophy are confronted "on singular points"), but his ideas are intensely rarified. Recommended for specialists.
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Review
'A significant book, one which one cannot fail to find staggering.' -- Jean Francois-Lyotard
'One of the most important philosophers writing today.' -- Joan Copjec
'A book of exceptional scope and rare courage of thought that tackles the whole of Philosophy, from Parmenides to Heidegger.' -- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
'Being and Event is one of the most significant texts in recent European thought ... This is Badiou's magnum opus.' -- Keith Ansell Pearson, Univeristy of Warwick
"Oliver Feltham's long-awaited translation of Being and Event has finally made Badiou's seminal work available to English-speaking readers. This is a major publishing event."--Dan Smith, Purdue University
"Two things are new in this much-anticipated translation of Badiou: the language and the preface. Both are instructive. Translator Oliver Feltham stayed "as close as possible to Badiou's syntax" but "at the price of losing fluidity."...Badiou addresses such dissonance and his larger philosophical goals in an indispensable new preface—without which the 37 weighty meditations might be lost to the layperson...His approach is part mathematical (Candor's set theory), part rationalist (Anglo-American), part poetic (Continental) and part textual (11 legends of philosophy are confronted "on singular points"), but his ideas are intensely rarified. Recommended" - Publishers Weekly Review Annex (Publishers Weekly )
"Professor Badiou (École Normale Supérieure & Collège International de Philosophie, Paris) published this text in French nearly 20 years ago. Despite the time lapse, American readers-including those who keep abreast of Continental philosophy only in translation-will encounter concepts they have rarely come across elsewhere. Maintaining that "mathematics is ontology" and that "ontology is a situation," Badiou offers 37 meditations (in the Cartesian sense), which are themselves one of three types: conceptual, textual, or metaontological. His syntax, which the translator has consciously maintained, elaborates on the ideas it carries by its formal and complex structure. Badiou's references to and use of his predecessors and contemporaries-including Plato, Cantor, Spinoza, Heidegger, Lacan, and a dozen other ancients, moderns, and postmoderns-are compelling in the instant but require much more protracted discussion in order for his project to enter an accessible stream of current intellectual discourse. A variety of scholars, including philosophers, mathematicians, and intellectual historians, would do well to examine this volume and seek in it threads that warrant continued examination in an era of nanotechnology and political terrorism." -Library Journal
(Library Journal )
"....The payoff for working through Badiou's text is nothing less than a revitalization of philosophy.... the publication of Being and Event itself is precisely what Badiou means when he writes of an 'event': something that disrupts the current situation.... And for those who may be interested by Deleuze but are wedded to more traditionally analytic ways of writing: Badiou's writing is often praised for its clarity and in many ways it mimes the economy of analytic philosophy, avoiding the obscurity (while preserving the density) of many of his French contemporaries.... While he is not immune to some amount of obscurity in some others of his writings, Being and Event certainly cannot be so faulted. At worst one might fault the author for demanding too much of his reader; but if this be a fault it is an admirable one to have, since it is a rare author indeed who can make such a demand." --Michael Kim, The Symptom, Online Journal for Lacan.com
''Being and Event', here translated from the French by Feltham, is evidence of Badiou's engagement across a range of critical disciplines within the Western intellectual tradition.' Tim Huntley, Flux Magazine, 01/09/2006
"To describe Being and Event as a difficult text would be an understatement. However, for all of its fearsomeness, Badiou is a kind an patient teacher, leading the reader through both the intricacies of set theory and the history of philosophy with a calm and steady hand...Originally published in France in 1988, Being and Event is without a doubt Badiou's magnum opus....Throughout Being and Event Badiou proposes intricate yet extremely bold conceptions of the categories of being, the event, the subject, and truth, inaugurating a new idea of philosophy itself, though he claims that there is nothing in his analysis that can't already be found in the history of philosophy and mathematics...Whether Badiou takes credit for it or not, it is clear that Being and Event brilliantly performs this synthesis of philosophy and mathematics against a backdrop of a theoretical environment grown stale with in-fighting and a debilitating fear of grand ideas. Badiou's Being and Event lays waste to that timidity with an astonishing force." --Nina Power, Philosophy in Review
' Badiou has a large and ambitious system, and in Being and Event he gives it its most comprehensive exposition.' Hugh Lawson-Tancred, The Liberal, March 2009
"Oliver Feltham’s long-awaited translation of Being and Event has finally made Badiou’s seminal work available to English-speaking readers. This is a major publishing event."--Dan Smith, Purdue University
"Professor Badiou (École Normale Supérieure & Collège International de Philosophie, Paris) published this text in French nearly 20 years ago. Despite the time lapse, American readers-including those who keep abreast of Continental philosophy only in translation-will encounter concepts they have rarely come across elsewhere. Maintaining that "mathematics is ontology" and that "ontology is a situation," Badiou offers 37 meditations (in the Cartesian sense), which are themselves one of three types: conceptual, textual, or metaontological. His syntax, which the translator has consciously maintained, elaborates on the ideas it carries by its formal and complex structure. Badiou's references to and use of his predecessors and contemporaries-including Plato, Cantor, Spinoza, Heidegger, Lacan, and a dozen other ancients, moderns, and postmoderns-are compelling in the instant but require much more protracted discussion in order for his project to enter an accessible stream of current intellectual discourse. A variety of scholars, including philosophers, mathematicians, and intellectual historians, would do well to examine this volume and seek in it threads that warrant continued examination in an era of nanotechnology and political terrorism." -Library Journal
(Library Journal )
“….The payoff for working through Badiou's text is nothing less than a revitalization of philosophy…. the publication of Being and Event itself is precisely what Badiou means when he writes of an 'event’: something that disrupts the current situation…. And for those who may be interested by Deleuze but are wedded to more traditionally analytic ways of writing: Badiou's writing is often praised for its clarity and in many ways it mimes the economy of analytic philosophy, avoiding the obscurity (while preserving the density) of many of his French contemporaries…. While he is not immune to some amount of obscurity in some others of his writings, Being and Event certainly cannot be so faulted. At worst one might fault the author for demanding too much of his reader; but if this be a fault it is an admirable one to have, since it is a rare author indeed who can make such a demand.” –Michael Kim, The Symptom, Online Journal for Lacan.com
“To describe Being and Event as a difficult text would be an understatement. However, for all of its fearsomeness, Badiou is a kind an patient teacher, leading the reader through both the intricacies of set theory and the history of philosophy with a calm and steady hand…Originally published in France in 1988, Being and Event is without a doubt Badiou’s magnum opus….Throughout Being and Event Badiou proposes intricate yet extremely bold conceptions of the categories of being, the event, the subject, and truth, inaugurating a new idea of philosophy itself, though he claims that there is nothing in his analysis that can’t already be found in the history of philosophy and mathematics…Whether Badiou takes credit for it or not, it is clear that Being and Event brilliantly performs this synthesis of philosophy and mathematics against a backdrop of a theoretical environment grown stale with in-fighting and a debilitating fear of grand ideas. Badiou’s Being and Event lays waste to that timidity with an astonishing force.” –Nina Power, Philosophy in Review
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