Malebranche (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
240
Utgivningsdatum
2021-07-27
Förlag
Columbia University Press
Översättare
Jason E Smith
Originalspråk
French
Medarbetare
Reinhard, Kenneth (red.)
Dimensioner
208 x 130 x 15 mm
Vikt
272 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780231174794

Malebranche

Theological Figure, Being 2

Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-07-27
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Alain Badiou is perhaps the worlds most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz. The seminar is at once a record of Badious thought at a key moment in the years before the publication of his most important work, Being and Event, and a lively interrogation of Malebranches key text, the Treatise on Nature and Grace. Badiou develops a rigorous yet novel analysis of Malebranches theory of grace, retracing his claims regarding the nature of creation and the relation between God and world and between God and Jesus. Through Malebranche, Badiou develops a radical concept of truth and the subject. This book renders a seemingly obscure post-Cartesian philosopher fascinating and alive, restoring him to the philosophical canon. It occupies a pivotal place in Badious reflections on the nature of being that demonstrates the crucial role of theology in his thinking.
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I devoured this magnificent work in an evening. It blends Badious usual systematic approach with a nuanced account of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century philosophy that draws skillful contrasts between Malebranches system and those of Arnauld, Bossuet, Leibniz, Pascal, and the Jesuits. Hovering over the scene is the unlikely but finally compelling specter of Jacques Lacan. -- Graham Harman, author of <i>Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything</i> Malebranche emerges from this seminar as an author divided between an asphyxiating theological doctrine and an exhilarating theory of the subject, which anticipates many ideas about desire, fantasy, finitude, and grace that will appear much later, from Hegel to Lacan. Even though Badiou claims that nothing productive came from his effort, we can appreciate in this new installment of his seminar a crucial stepping stone between Theory of the Subject and Being and Event. -- Bruno Bosteels, author of <i>Badiou and Politics</i> This book tackles Malebranche through Alain Badious unique perspective. Badiou nicely translates questions of theology into questions of politics, bringing Malebranche a contemporary resonance that he doesnt have in any other account. -- Todd McGowan, author of <i>Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution</i> The book reads very well, and the translation is as excellent as one would expect from this team. . . . Anyone curious about Malebranche, or wishing to recall things they used to know about him, should enjoy Badiou's presentation; and anyone who appreciates solid philosophical exegeses and a bit of intellectual flair should be very entertained and provoked by this seminar as well. -- Ed Pluth * Notre Dame Philosophical Review * Malebranche is a must-read for Marxists, Philosophers, Theologians, and anyone interested in the Philosophy of Alain Badiou. -- Dalton Winfree * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books * A fascinating interrogation of a thinker much ignored in the English-speaking world by a leading contemporary philosopher. * Choice * Malebranche is Badious most richly theological work . . . Like nearly all of Badious writing, it is conceptually difficult and challenging, but immensely rewarding. * Modern Theology *

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Alain Badiou is emeritus professor of philosophy at the cole normale suprieure in Paris. His Columbia University Press books include Platos Republic: A Dialogue in Sixteen Chapters (2015) and Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3 (2018). Jason E. Smith is chair of the Graduate Art MFA program at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has written widely on contemporary philosophy and translated Alain Badiou and lisabeth Roudinescos Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue (Columbia, 2014). He is currently writing a book on automation and work. Susan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badious works.

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Introduction 1. Affects in Configuration: Controversy and Conviviality in Fatih Akns The Edge of Heaven and Asghar Farhadis A Separation 2. Critical Intensity: Jean-Luc Godards and Rainer Werner Fassbinders Defamiliarized Worldmaking Practices 3. Genre Assemblages: Affective Incisions in Fatih Akns The Cut and Aki Kaurismkis Refugee Trilogy 4. Tenderly Cruel Realisms: Objectfull Assembly and the Horizon of a Shared World Epilogue: Reconfiguring Resistance Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index