Manifesto for Philosophy

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by Alain Badiou,

Translated by Norman Madarasz

State University of New York Press

Due/Published September 1999, 128 pages, paper

ISBN 0791442209

SUNY says that contra to those proclaiming the end of philosophy, Badiou seeks to restore philosophical thought to the complete space of the truths that condition it. In The Ticklish Subject, Zizek writes at length about this contemporary French writer. He reverses and dsplaces the major motifs of modernist 'antiphilisophy' from Nietzsche through Derrida. In this book you get a sketch of his project--given in detail in the still untranslated L'Etre et lévénement (Being and Event??)--to reestablish systematic philosophy as a "Platonism of the multiple, " articulated around the four conditioning discourses of science (notably the math of set theory), art (especially poetry from Hölderlin to Celan), politics (in a post-Marxist mode informed by the events of May '68), and love (as conceptualized by Lacan).

Series: Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory