Being and Event
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Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou's philosophical project and sees him recast the European philosophical tradition from Plato onwards, via a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, and Lacan. He thus develops the basis for a history of philosophy rivalling those of Heidegger and Deleuze in its depth.
Now publishing in the Bloomsbury Revelations series to mark 25 years since the book's first publication in French, Being and Event is an essential read for anyone interested in contemporary thought.
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the E?cole normale sup�rieure and the Coll�ge international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy.
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Oliver Feltham
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Oliver Feltham is Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Paris. His training in Sydney and Paris was in contemporary French philosophy, psychoanalysis, theatre and eco-design. During his career he has used this training to develop an innovative method and apply it to the question of the ontology of political action in early modern philosophy, aesthetics and metaphysics. His current research concerns the genealogy of the concept of political action in modernity, and the relation between action, time and the collective imagination.
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