Philosophical Militant

Alain Badiou's Logical Revolts

AvAndrey Gordienko,Michael Marder

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy

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Beskrivning

Approaching Alain Badiou as a militant thinker who wages theoretical battles to advance the communist hypothesis, this book explores the central ambiguity of his project: the enigmatic relationship between philosophy and politics.On the one hand, Badiou’s mature texts maintain a strict line of separation between the two thought-practices. On the other, he consistently links the philosophical pursuit of true life to a political revolt against injustice and domination.By making a case for the French philosopher as a combative polemicist rather than a builder of grand ontological systems, The Philosophical Militant advances a new imperative for philosophy – to privilege active engagement with the present. Tracing Badiou’s engagement with canonical philosophers, putting him in dialogue with contemporary theorists, and exploring the relevance of his ideas to the politics of Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic, this text foregrounds the actuality of Badiou’s work. Not limiting itself to commentary on the philosopher’s canonical texts, Gordienko aspires to think the contemporary moment with Badiou.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-08
Mått:164 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350514621

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Mer om författaren

Andrey Gordienko holds a PhD from University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where he has taught a graduate seminar on contemporary film theory. His work has been published in Philosophy Today, SubStance, Paragraph, Continental Philosophy Review, and Sartre Studies International.

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Gordienko’s book on Badiou is a brilliant, rigorous, and timely intervention into contemporary political philosophy. By staging a critical dialogue with Sartre, Lacan, Althusser, and Foucault (among others) the book situates Badiou within a lineage of radical thought while also mounting an uncompromising polemic against the ideological complacencies of our technocratic order. Rejecting the conciliatory gestures of liberal capitalism, Gordienko reasserts the vitality of (anti)philosophy as a political act—one committed to confronting the Real and reimagining the conditions of the possible.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Philosopher as the ContemporaryPart I. Struggles on the Philosophical Battlefield1. Politics and Philosophy in the Red Years: Sartre, Althusser, and the Problematic of Suture 2. The Cause of the People: Sartre’s Encounter with Lacan in Badiou’s Theory of the Subject 3. The Ethics of Communism: From Sartrean Responsibility to Lacanian Drive 4. Foucault, Badiou, and the Courage of PhilosophyPart II. Diagnoses of the Political Disease 5. “The Most Cynical Prostitution”: Liberalism and Democracy6. Is There a Theory of Neoliberalism in Badiou’s Work?7. Does the Left Dream of the Commune or the Lockdown?8. Trump and the Erasure of Political FrontiersNotes Select Bibliography