Posts tagged ‘Alain Badiou’
The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process
With introduction by Bruno Bosteels
by Alain Badiou / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013)
After achieving considerable critical acclaim with Almageste and Portulans – two avant-garde novels that promptly caught the attention of his long-time intellectual model Jean-Paul Sartre – Alain Badiou published ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’, his first work as a philosopher.1 Written in 1965 as part of a seminar presented under the aegis of his [...]
An introduction to Alain Badiou’s ‘The autonomy of the aesthetic process’
by Bruno Bosteels / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013)
See Alain Badiou, ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’ (in the same issue)
The Two Names of Communism
by John Roberts / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013)
Toujours avec l’espoir de rencontrer la mer, lis voyageaient sans pain, sans batons et sans urnes, Mordant au citron d’or de l’ideal amer. Stephane Mallarme, 18621 The recent explosion of writing on the communist idea, ideal and ‘communization’ recovers or expands a moment in the early to mid-1980s when French political theory and philosophy (in [...]
More than everything
Žižek’s Badiouian Hegel
by Peter Osborne / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013)
There are philosophical books, minor classics even, which are widely known and referred to, although no one has actually read them page by page… a nice example of interpassivity, where some figure of the Other is supposed to do the reading for us. Slavoj Žižek1 Allow me to be that figure (for now anyway), for [...]
Flickers
by Philip Derbyshire / 2013
Bruno Bosteels, Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror, Verso, London and New York, 2012. 326 pp., £19.99 pb., 978 1 84467 755 9. Bruno Bosteels is probably best known to readers of Radical Philosophy as translator of and commentator on the work of Alain Badiou – most [...]
176 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography
Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
Claudia Aradau and Rens Van Munster, Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown
Stuart Price, Worst Case Scenario? Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime
Martin Breaugh, L’Expérience Plébéienne
Tina Chanter, Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery
Stella Sandford, Plato and Sex
Alain Badiou, with Nicolas Truong, In Praise of Love
Yehoshua Yakhot, The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR: The 1920s & 1930s
Jay Lampert, Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time
by David Cunningham, David van Dusen, Peter Adey, Bruno Dias, Christine Battersby, Nicola Foster, Stella Sandford, Emanuele Saccarelli and Martijn Boven / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012)
Reviewing Rancière. Or, the persistence of discrepancies
Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
by Bruno Bosteels / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011)
In the nearly four decades since its original publication, Althusser’s Lesson has acquired a certain mythical aura as the dark precursor of things to come. Even with the wealth of translations of Jacques Rancière’s work that have been published at an increasingly feverish pace over the past few years in the wake of the author’s worldwide [...]
Flaubert’s parrot
by David Cunningham / 2011
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2011. 215 pp., £55.00 hb., £17.99 pb., 978 0 74564 531 5 hb., 978 0 74564 530 8 pb. David Cunningham The ongoing role played by French philosophy in underwriting the contemporaneity of anglophone theory has entailed, since the 1970s, the [...]
156 Reviews
by Alberto Toscano, Tiziana Terranova, Andrew Goffey, Alison Stone, Mick Smith, Timothy Chambers, Bojana Cvejic, Anindya Bhattacharyya and Craig Brandist / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009)
Stefan Jonsson, A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions Alberto Toscano Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks Tiziana Terranova Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain? Andrew Goffey Lisa Baraitser, Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption Alison Stone Damian F. White, Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal Mick [...]
‘On the Idea of Communism’, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13–15 March 2009
by Matthew Charles / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009)
Gramsci and the political
From the state as ‘metaphysical event’ to hegemony as ‘philosophical fact’
by Peter Thomas / RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009)
The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, NY, 10–12 April 2008
by Nathan Brown / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008)
149 Reviews
by Knox Peden, Peter Hallward, Robert Spencer, Steve Edwards, Gail Day and Jean-Paul Martinon / RP 149 (May/Jun 2008)
Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May ’68 and Contemporary French Thought Knox Peden Alain Badiou, De Quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? Circonstances Peter Hallward Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Robert Spencer John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade Steve Edwards Matthew Beaumont, [...]
131 Reviews
by Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Drew Milne, Stephen Frosh, Alastair Morgan and Martyn Everett / RP 131 (May/Jun 2005)
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics Stewart Martin Jacques Rancière, The Philosopher and His Poor Mark Neocleous Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History Drew Milne Eli Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis Stephen Frosh [...]
126 Reviews
by Monica Mookherjee, David Cunningham, Andrew Aitken, Philip Derbyshire, Andrew McGettigan, Phillip Cole, Howard Caygill and Charles J. Stivale / RP 126 (Jul/Aug 2004)
Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries Ted Honderich, Terrorism for Humanity: Inquiries in Political Philosophy Monica Mookherjee Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian, eds, Learning Places:The Afterlives of Area Studies Françoise Vergès Alain Badiou, On Beckett David Cunningham Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life Stuart Elden, Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible Andrew Aitken [...]
The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process
With introduction by Bruno Bosteels
by Alain Badiou / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013)
After achieving considerable critical acclaim with Almageste and Portulans – two avant-garde novels that promptly caught the attention of his long-time intellectual model Jean-Paul Sartre – Alain Badiou published ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’, his first work as a philosopher.1 Written in 1965 as part of a seminar presented under the aegis of his [...]
An introduction to Alain Badiou’s ‘The autonomy of the aesthetic process’
by Bruno Bosteels / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013)See Alain Badiou, ‘The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process’ (in the same issue)
The Two Names of Communism
by John Roberts / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013)Toujours avec l’espoir de rencontrer la mer, lis voyageaient sans pain, sans batons et sans urnes, Mordant au citron d’or de l’ideal amer. Stephane Mallarme, 18621 The recent explosion of writing on the communist idea, ideal and ‘communization’ recovers or expands a moment in the early to mid-1980s when French political theory and philosophy (in [...]
More than everything
Žižek’s Badiouian Hegel
by Peter Osborne / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013)
There are philosophical books, minor classics even, which are widely known and referred to, although no one has actually read them page by page… a nice example of interpassivity, where some figure of the Other is supposed to do the reading for us. Slavoj Žižek1 Allow me to be that figure (for now anyway), for [...]
Flickers
by Philip Derbyshire / 2013Bruno Bosteels, Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror, Verso, London and New York, 2012. 326 pp., £19.99 pb., 978 1 84467 755 9. Bruno Bosteels is probably best known to readers of Radical Philosophy as translator of and commentator on the work of Alain Badiou – most [...]
176 Reviews
Books Reviewed:
Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography
Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
Claudia Aradau and Rens Van Munster, Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown
Stuart Price, Worst Case Scenario? Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime
Martin Breaugh, L’Expérience Plébéienne
Tina Chanter, Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery
Stella Sandford, Plato and Sex
Alain Badiou, with Nicolas Truong, In Praise of Love
Yehoshua Yakhot, The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR: The 1920s & 1930s
Jay Lampert, Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time
by David Cunningham, David van Dusen, Peter Adey, Bruno Dias, Christine Battersby, Nicola Foster, Stella Sandford, Emanuele Saccarelli and Martijn Boven / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012)
Reviewing Rancière. Or, the persistence of discrepancies
Dossier: The Althusser–Rancière Controversy
by Bruno Bosteels / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011)
In the nearly four decades since its original publication, Althusser’s Lesson has acquired a certain mythical aura as the dark precursor of things to come. Even with the wealth of translations of Jacques Rancière’s work that have been published at an increasingly feverish pace over the past few years in the wake of the author’s worldwide [...]
Flaubert’s parrot
by David Cunningham / 2011Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2011. 215 pp., £55.00 hb., £17.99 pb., 978 0 74564 531 5 hb., 978 0 74564 530 8 pb. David Cunningham The ongoing role played by French philosophy in underwriting the contemporaneity of anglophone theory has entailed, since the 1970s, the [...]
156 Reviews
by Alberto Toscano, Tiziana Terranova, Andrew Goffey, Alison Stone, Mick Smith, Timothy Chambers, Bojana Cvejic, Anindya Bhattacharyya and Craig Brandist / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009)Stefan Jonsson, A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions Alberto Toscano Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks Tiziana Terranova Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain? Andrew Goffey Lisa Baraitser, Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption Alison Stone Damian F. White, Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal Mick [...]
‘On the Idea of Communism’, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13–15 March 2009
by Matthew Charles / RP 155 (May/Jun 2009)
Gramsci and the political
From the state as ‘metaphysical event’ to hegemony as ‘philosophical fact’
by Peter Thomas / RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009)
The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, NY, 10–12 April 2008
by Nathan Brown / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008)149 Reviews
by Knox Peden, Peter Hallward, Robert Spencer, Steve Edwards, Gail Day and Jean-Paul Martinon / RP 149 (May/Jun 2008)Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May ’68 and Contemporary French Thought Knox Peden Alain Badiou, De Quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? Circonstances Peter Hallward Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Robert Spencer John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade Steve Edwards Matthew Beaumont, [...]
131 Reviews
by Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Drew Milne, Stephen Frosh, Alastair Morgan and Martyn Everett / RP 131 (May/Jun 2005)Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics Stewart Martin Jacques Rancière, The Philosopher and His Poor Mark Neocleous Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History Drew Milne Eli Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis Stephen Frosh [...]
126 Reviews
by Monica Mookherjee, David Cunningham, Andrew Aitken, Philip Derbyshire, Andrew McGettigan, Phillip Cole, Howard Caygill and Charles J. Stivale / RP 126 (Jul/Aug 2004)Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries Ted Honderich, Terrorism for Humanity: Inquiries in Political Philosophy Monica Mookherjee Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian, eds, Learning Places:The Afterlives of Area Studies Françoise Vergès Alain Badiou, On Beckett David Cunningham Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life Stuart Elden, Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible Andrew Aitken [...]
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