Oliver Feltham teaches literature and philosophy at the American University of Paris, France, the University of California Paris Centre, and is a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

"Feltham, the English translator of Being and Event, reads Badiou's work with an intimate eye and a practiced lucidity...A useful introduction to Badiou's work, this book is packed with fresh ideas sufficient to satisfy the most advanced readers." - Professor Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, USA

• 1. The Althusserian Years: Epistemology and the production of change; i. Structural Change in Society; ii. Structural Change in Knowledge: science and ideology; iii. The mathematical concept of model and scientific change; 2. Maoism and the dialectic; Introduction; i. The Maoist turn: the Primacy of Practice; ii. The Structural Dialectic and its Periodization; 3. Systematic Philosophy: From Being and Event to Logiques des mondes.; Introduction: the subtraction of Maoism; i. The Return to and Renovation of Systematic Philosophy; ii. The Extra Dose of Contingency: the Event, the Intervention and the eagle; iii. Forcing and the Generic: the old mole; iv. Method; v. Logiques des mondes as a Further Renovation of Systematic philosophy; vi. Conclusion: The pleasures of incompletion.

Oliver Feltham teaches literature and philosophy at the American University of Paris, France, the University of California Paris Centre, and is a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

"Feltham, the English translator of Being and Event, reads Badiou's work with an intimate eye and a practiced lucidity...A useful introduction to Badiou's work, this book is packed with fresh ideas sufficient to satisfy the most advanced readers." - Professor Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, USA

• 1. The Althusserian Years: Epistemology and the production of change; i. Structural Change in Society; ii. Structural Change in Knowledge: science and ideology; iii. The mathematical concept of model and scientific change; 2. Maoism and the dialectic; Introduction; i. The Maoist turn: the Primacy of Practice; ii. The Structural Dialectic and its Periodization; 3. Systematic Philosophy: From Being and Event to Logiques des mondes.; Introduction: the subtraction of Maoism; i. The Return to and Renovation of Systematic Philosophy; ii. The Extra Dose of Contingency: the Event, the Intervention and the eagle; iii. Forcing and the Generic: the old mole; iv. Method; v. Logiques des mondes as a Further Renovation of Systematic philosophy; vi. Conclusion: The pleasures of incompletion.

Oliver Feltham teaches literature and philosophy at the American University of Paris, France, the University of California Paris Centre, and is a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

"Feltham, the English translator of Being and Event, reads Badiou's work with an intimate eye and a practiced lucidity...A useful introduction to Badiou's work, this book is packed with fresh ideas sufficient to satisfy the most advanced readers." - Professor Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, USA

• 1. The Althusserian Years: Epistemology and the production of change; i. Structural Change in Society; ii. Structural Change in Knowledge: science and ideology; iii. The mathematical concept of model and scientific change; 2. Maoism and the dialectic; Introduction; i. The Maoist turn: the Primacy of Practice; ii. The Structural Dialectic and its Periodization; 3. Systematic Philosophy: From Being and Event to Logiques des mondes.; Introduction: the subtraction of Maoism; i. The Return to and Renovation of Systematic Philosophy; ii. The Extra Dose of Contingency: the Event, the Intervention and the eagle; iii. Forcing and the Generic: the old mole; iv. Method; v. Logiques des mondes as a Further Renovation of Systematic philosophy; vi. Conclusion: The pleasures of incompletion.