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.

'Any book about Alain Badiou by Oliver Feltham should be taken seriously ... Alain Badiou: Live Theory is a valuable book for those of us struggling to grasp the thematic trends in Badiou's thought ... given the originality of the work and Feltham's ability to keep the chronological trajectory of Badiou's thought before us, this book (which also contains a brief interview with Badiou at the end) is an important addition to the literature on this increasingly influential philosophical voice' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• 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.

'Any book about Alain Badiou by Oliver Feltham should be taken seriously ... Alain Badiou: Live Theory is a valuable book for those of us struggling to grasp the thematic trends in Badiou's thought ... given the originality of the work and Feltham's ability to keep the chronological trajectory of Badiou's thought before us, this book (which also contains a brief interview with Badiou at the end) is an important addition to the literature on this increasingly influential philosophical voice' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• 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.

'Any book about Alain Badiou by Oliver Feltham should be taken seriously ... Alain Badiou: Live Theory is a valuable book for those of us struggling to grasp the thematic trends in Badiou's thought ... given the originality of the work and Feltham's ability to keep the chronological trajectory of Badiou's thought before us, this book (which also contains a brief interview with Badiou at the end) is an important addition to the literature on this increasingly influential philosophical voice' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• 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.