The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the “French moment” in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation.

Badiou- THE ADVENTURE OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHY Left Review 35, September-October 2005French philosophy from the 1940s to the 1990s viewed as a third exceptional moment in the history of the indiscipline, after classical Greece and enlightenment Germany. Alain Badiou takes four coordinates for a tour de force of terse analysis: the antecedents of this moment, the enterprises it launched, the links it forged with literature, and the relations it developed with psychoanalysis.ALAIN BADIOUTHE ADVENTURE OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHYLet us begin these reflections on contemporary French philosophy with a paradox: that which is the most universal is also, at the same time, the most particular. Hegel calls this the 'concrete universal', the synthesis of that which is absolutely universal, which pertains to everything, with that which has a particular time and place. Philosophy is a good example. Absolutely universal, it addresses itself to all, without exception; but within philosophy there exist powerful cultural and national particularities.

There are what we might call moments of philosophy, in space and in time. Newsleecher 3.8 License Crackz more. Philosophy is thus both a universal aim of reason and, simultaneously, one that manifests itself in completely specific moments. Let us take the example of two especially intense and well-known philosophical instances. First, that of classical Greek philosophy between Parmenides and Aristotle, from the 5th to the 3rd cen.

ALAIN BADIOU THE ADVENTURE OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHY. Let us begin these reflections on contemporary French philosophy with a. New left review 35 sept oct 2005 67 alain badiou THE ADVENTURE OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHY L et us begin these reflections on contemporary French phil-osophy with a.

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504 a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 a Translator's introduction -- Preface: The adventure of French philosophy -- Pt. Essays and talks. The current situation on the philosophical front -- Hegel in France -- Commitment, detachment, fidelity -- Is there a theory of the subject in the work of Georges Canguilhem? -- The Caesura of nihilism -- The reserved offering -- Foucault: continuity and discontinuity -- Jacques Rancière's lessons: knowledge and power after the storm -- pt. Book reviews. The (re)commencement of dialectical materialism -- The flux and the party: in the margins of Anti-Oedipus -- The fascism of the potato -- An angel has passed -- Custos, quid noctis?

-- Gilles Deleuze, The fold: Leibniz and the Baroque -- Objectivity and objectality -- On Françoise Proust, Kant: The tone of history -- The imperative of negation -- Logology against ontology -- The subject supposed to be a Christian -- pt. For a tomb of Gilles Deleuze -- Jullien the Apostate -- A note on the texts. 590 a August12phi 546 a Translated from the French. 650 0 a Philosophy, French y 20th century. 700 1 a Bosteels, Bruno. 994 a 92 b PVU 852 0 b MAIN h B2430.B272 i E5 2012.