Badiou and philosophy - Sean Bowden

From Cantor to category/topos theory, from Lacan to Lautman and from Sartre to the subject, these 13 essays engage directly with the work of Alain Badiou. They focus on the philosophical content of Badiou's work and show how he connects both with his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. This is an important collection for anyone interested in the work of Badiou and contemporary Continental philosophy.

This anthology participates in a shift in the scholarship surrounding Badiou's work: beyond enthusiasm and polemic, the ground now opened, scholars sound the complexity of the oeuvre, reveal its intricate articulation of mathematics and ontology, and discover its peculiar capacity to generate, beyond commentary, new philosophical investigations.