Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021). Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics and Conditions, and Alienation and Freedom (Bloomsbury 2017) by Frantz Fanon.

"Conditions is the essential complement to Being and Event: a fascinating introduction to both its problematics and also their masterly depth." - Quentin Meillassoux

• The Subtractive: Preface by Francois WahlAcknowledgementsI. Philosophy Itself1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself2. Definition of philosophy3. What is a philosophical institution?II. Philosophy and Poetry4. The philosophical recourse to the poem5. Mallarmé's method: subtraction and isolation6. Rimbaud's method: interruptionIII. Philosophy and Mathematics7. Philosophy and mathematics8. Conference on subtraction9. Truth: forcing and unnameable IV. Philosophy and Politics10. Philosophy and politicsV. Philosophy and Love11. What is love?VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis13. Subject and infinite14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and PlatoVII. Writing of the Generic15. Writing of the generic: Samuel BeckettNotes Index