Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Society, Economy and Culture in Transition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of but departing from those two towering modes of late 20th-century culture. Seen in this light, the preoccupation of populism, identity politics, hybrid wars and other contemporary phenomena can be seen as the result of the disintegration of neoliberal agendas and postmodernist sensibilities.Drawing together a vast range of thinkers and theoretical models, from Gramsci to Jameson, Hauser traces the reasons for the decline and demise of the grand narratives of the twentieth century and the ideologies that replaced them. His explanation of the foundational ‘epicycloid’ and disintegrative ‘elliptical’ stages of political movements then lays the ground for a deep engagement with Alain Badiou, understanding his ‘transitory ontology’ as a philosophical response to our interregnum. By expanding and unpicking Badiou’s thoughts on mathematics, politics, art, love, and the conditions of doing philosophy, we can imagine a point beyond the present moment in history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-11
Mått:158 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350437845

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Michael Hauser is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science, and an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Michael Hauser constructs a compelling theory of the present as the repetition of interregnum in an atonal world without Events. Hauser articulates an original interpretation of Badiou's thought, in which the concept of interregnum serves to interrogate both the Stalinist past and the contemporary neoliberal and postmodern order. Hauser argues that the post-1989 neoliberal order was fundamentally parasitic and prosthetic, grafting the egalitarian promises of socialism to better infiltrate decomposed, post-socialist societies. In the present, in contrast, this clarity has dissolved into a cacophonous conflation of social models, the forms of which circulate in a culture of immediate consumption without Idea. In this context, Hauser deploys the thought of Alain Badiou in a highly original configuration, to discern the limits of the present interregnum, as well as the emergent promise of an egalitarian, communist order to come.

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Preface Introduction : The Liberating Power of Generalization and the Prehistory of the Interregnum Part I: The Eccentric InterregnumFirst Section: The Epicyclic Period (1989-2000/2008)1. Neoliberalism With Traces of Communism2. Postmodernism, In Which Modernism is ExtinguishedConclusion of the First Section: The Epicyclic Character of the First Period of the InterregnumSecond Section: The Elliptical Period (2000/2008-present)Introduction: The Path to a Pure Interregnum1. Fractured Neoliberalism2. Contemporary Culture and Politics as Infinite Circulation Part 2: Badiou's Transitive OntologyIntroduction: The Philosophy of Truths as a Response to the Interregnum 1. Situating Badiou in the Interregnum2. The Philosophical Exodus from the Interregnum: Event, Truth, and the Subject as a Composition of Unity and Multiplicity 3. The Interregnum as the Age of the Absolute List of sources