Alain Badiou’s philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre.
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Full List of EntriesAbsolute (The)
Affirmationism
Antiphilosophy
Appearance, existence
–The appearing of truth
AXIOM
Samuel Beckett
Being
The Body
–Body and identification
–Body and Subject
–Body and Event
–Body and Void
–Body and Organs
–Body and the present
Georg Cantor
Category Theory
The Twentieth Century
–The passion of the real
–Destruction vs Subtraction
Consistent and Inconsistent Multiplicity
Cinema
Communism
Compossibility
Decision
Gilles Deleuze
Democracy
–Democracy as a figure of state
–Democracy as a philosophical notion
–Democratic materialism
Derrida
Dialectics
Disaster
Encyclopaedia
Ethics and evil
Event
Existence/Non-Existence
Factory/Worker
FEMINISM
Fidelity
Forcing
–Forcing in ‘Infinitesimal Subversion
–Forcing in Being and Event
Generic
Martin Heidegger
History
–Overturning the diametrical opposition between history and eternity
Ideology
–Ideology: Before 1968
–Ideology: After 1968
Inaesthetics
Infinity
Uses of the word ‘Jew’
Justice
Immanuel Kant
Kierkegaard
Linguistic Turn
Love
Maoist politics
Marxist politics
–The Four Fundamental Concepts of Marxism in TS
–The ‘post-Maoism’ of post-BE
Matheme
Metaphysics
Metapolitics
–Immanent conditions of politics
Model
Multiplicity
–At the origins of the concept of pure multiplicity
–Pure multiplicity
Nature
Nietzsche
Nouveaux philosophes
Numbers
Surreal Numbers
Object
THE ONE
Ontology, metaontology
Pascal
Philosophical situation
Platonism/anti-Platonism
Politics
Psychoanalysis + Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis + Lacan
RANCIERE and EQUALITY
–A common polemics
–Equality and thought
–The axiomatic or procedural status of equality
–Subject and sequence
Representation
Romanticism
Sans-Papiers
Jean-Paul Sartre
Saint Paul
–Paul and the Subjective Consequences of the Event
–Paul and ‘the present’
–The antinomies of militancy
–Resurrection
Saturation
Schoenberg
–How are we to understand such a philosophical relation?
Sexuality
Site
Sophistry
Baruch Spinoza
Figures of the Subject*
–Subject as sequence
–The Faithful Subject
–The Reactive Subject
–The Obscure Subject
– Resurrection
Subtraction – undecidable, indiscernible, generic, unnameable
–The undecidable
–The indiscernible
–The generic
–The unnameable
–Subtraction: affirmation and negation
Suture
–Ideological Suture
–Ontological Suture
–Philosophical Suture
System
Theatre
Thermidorian
Truth
Topology
Transcendental Regime
The Two
Universality
VOID
Wagner
Woman, the feminine, sexual difference
–SUBTRACTION: woman as particularity
–SUBLIMATION: woman as a guarantee of universality for humanity
–SUBLATION: woman as the going-beyond of the One
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Worlds
–Worldliness and Capitalism
ErrataFigures of the Subject
On p. 324, the word ‘operative’ should read ‘inoperative’ (rendering exactly the opposite meaning as that currently given).
Pascal
On p. 244, lines 23–5 contain a misplaced reference in parentheses that belongs to, and is included in full in, the entry on Kierkegaard and should simply be ignored here.
