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Badiou and Politics offers a much-anticipated interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou. Countering ideas of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the event as a radical break, Bruno Bosteels reveals Badiou’s deep and ongoing investment in the dialectic. Bosteels draws on all of Badiou’s writings, from the philosopher’s student days in the 1960s to the present, as well as on Badiou’s exchanges with other thinkers, from his avowed “masters” Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, to interlocutors including Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek, Daniel BensaÏd, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler. Bosteels tracks the philosopher’s political activities from the events of May 1968 through his embrace of Maoism and the work he has done since the 1980s, helping to mobilize France’s illegal immigrants or sans-papiers. Ultimately, Bosteels argues for understanding Badiou’s thought as a revival of dialectical materialism, and he illuminates the philosopher’s understanding of the task of theory: to define a conceptual space for thinking emancipatory politics in the present.

Badiou and Politics offers a much-anticipated interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou. Countering ideas of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the event as a radical break, Bruno Bosteels reveals Badiou’s deep and ongoing investment in the dialectic. Bosteels draws on all of Badiou’s writings, from the philosopher’s student days in the 1960s to the present, as well as on Badiou’s exchanges with other thinkers, from his avowed “masters” Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, to interlocutors including Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek, Daniel Bensaïd, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler. Bosteels tracks the philosopher’s political activities from the events of May 1968 through his embrace of Maoism and the work he has done since the 1980s, helping to mobilize France’s illegal immigrants or sans-papiers. Ultimately, Bosteels argues for understanding Badiou’s thought as a revival of dialectical materialism, and he illuminates the philosopher’s understanding of the task of theory: to define a conceptual space for thinking emancipatory politics in the present.

Offering an in-depth interpretation of Sigmund Freud's 'collective' or 'social' works, León Rozitchner insists that the Left should consider the ways in which capitalism inscribes its power in the subject as the site for the verification of history. Thus, after a brief commentary on Freud's New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, the present book provides the reader with a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Civilisation and Its Discontents and Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Freud's views, according to Rozitchner's original reading, offer a striking contribution to a materialist theory and history of subjectivity.This book was first published in Spanish as Freud y los límites del individualismo burgués by Siglo XXI Editores, 1972.

This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artists during times of political and cultural oppression.Bruno Bosteels presents ten case studies arguing that art and literature-the novel, poetry, theatre, film-more than any militant tract or theoretical essay, can give us a glimpse into Marxism and psychoanalysis, not so much as sciences of history or of the unconscious, respectively, but rather as two intricately related modes of understanding the formation of subjectivity.

One of the rising stars of contemporary critical theory, Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought generated by figures such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Zizek, who are spearheading the revival of interest in Communism. Bosteels examines this resurgence of Communist thought through the prism of "speculative leftism" - an incapacity to move beyond lofty abstractions and thoroughly rethink the categories of masses, classes and state. Debating those questions with writers including Roberto Esposito and Alberto Moreiras, Bosteels also provides a vital account of the work of the Bolivian Vice President and thinker Álvaro García Linera.

One of the rising stars of contemporary critical theory, Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought generated by figures such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Ranci�re and Slavoj Zizek, who are spearheading the revival of interest in Communism. Bosteels examines this resurgence of Communist thought through the prism of "speculative leftism" - an incapacity to move beyond lofty abstractions and thoroughly rethink the categories of masses, classes and state. Debating those questions with writers including Roberto Esposito and Alberto Moreiras, Bosteels also provides a vital account of the work of the Bolivian Vice President and thinker �lvaro Garc�a Linera.

The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser's canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of "potato fascism" in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought.Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.

The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser''s canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of "potato fascism" in Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari''s A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought.Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.

This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artists during times of political and cultural oppression.Bruno Bosteels presents ten case studies arguing that art and literature-the novel, poetry, theatre, film-more than any militant tract or theoretical essay, can give us a glimpse into Marxism and psychoanalysis, not so much as sciences of history or of the unconscious, respectively, but rather as two intricately related modes of understanding the formation of subjectivity.

In seinem Notizbuch befragt Bruno Bosteels die Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Ideologie. Er schlägt eine Analogie zwischen der Traumarbeit und der Kunst vor, da diese auf die »reflexhaften Gesten« und Annahmen über Kunst aufmerksam macht. Entgegen der Auffassung, dass Kunst per se mit Befreiung, Überschreitung und Widerständigkeit gleichzusetzen sei, entwirft Bosteels den Grundriss einer Theorie der Ideologie der Kunst und fragt, ob statt der überbewerteten politischen Subversion »die künstlerische Freiheit« als Grundmodell der ideologischen Einschreibung von Individuen in die bestehenden Gesellschaftsstrukturen dienen könne. Mithilfe von Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière und Jean-François Lyotard analysiert er die Bindung der Kunst an die herrschende Ordnung und ihre vorübergehende halluzinatorische Befriedigung. Bruno Bosteels, (* 1967), ist zurzeit Professor für Romanistik und Komparatistik an der Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

In seinem Notizbuch  befragt Bruno Bosteels die Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Ideologie. Er schlägt eine Analogie zwischen der Traumarbeit und der Kunst vor, da diese auf die »reflexhaften Gesten« und Annahmen über Kunst aufmerksam macht. Entgegen der Auffassung, dass Kunst per se mit Befreiung, Überschreitung und Widerständigkeit gleichzusetzen sei, entwirft Bosteels den Grundriss einer Theorie der Ideologie der Kunst und fragt, ob statt der überbewerteten politischen Subversion »die künstlerische Freiheit« als Grundmodell der ideologischen Einschreibung von Individuen in die bestehenden Gesellschaftsstrukturen dienen könne. Mithilfe von Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière und  Jean-François Lyotard analysiert er die Bindung der Kunst an die herrschende Ordnung und ihre vorübergehende halluzinatorische Befriedigung.     Bruno Bosteels, (* 1967), ist zurzeit Professor für Romanistik und Komparatistik an der Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.   Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

"Sabemos que era enemigo de los filósofos: apoderarse de una de sus armas y volverla contra ellos, debió causarle un belicoso placer". Esta frase de Jorge Luis Borges, sacada de su ensayo temprano "Historia de la eternidad", bien podría resumir la actitud con que Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein o Jacques Lacan se acercaron a la búsqueda milenaria de la verdad que al menos en Occidente se asocia con el nombre de la filosofía. Entre 1992 y 1996 Alain Badiou se dedicó a sistematizar tal actitud describiéndola como típica de la "antifilosofía", término que el filósofo francés retoma de Lacan, quien a su vez la había tomado prestada de los enemigos del pensamiento materialista y ateo en torno a la Revolución francesa.En diálogo con el pensamiento de Badiou, Bruno Bosteels aquí investiga el belicoso placer que les causa a los antifilósofos apoderarse de las armas de la filosofía para volverlas contra los filósofos. Y termina preguntándose si no hay también una tentación antifilosófica presente en el propio Badiou. Bruno Bosteels es profesor de humanidades en Columbia University en Nueva York. Se dedica al estudio de la cultura y la política en América Latina así como a la filosofía y la teoría política. Es el autor, entre otros libros recientes, de Badiou y lo político y La actualidad del comunismo, ambos publicados también por Prometeo Libros.