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The perfect companion piece to Badiou'¬"s Pocket Pantheon, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the '¬SFrench moment'¬ in contemporary philosophy. From the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser'¬"s canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital to the scathing critiques of the '¬Spotato fascism'¬ in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari'¬"s Anti-Oedipus and the '¬Sgrand politics'¬ of Christian Jambet and Guy Lardreau'¬"s The Angel; from talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy to reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, Badiou reveals the exceptionally rich and varied adventure that is French philosophy.

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy.

Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of Badiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America, and The Actuality of Communism. He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: Theory of the Subject, Can Politics Be Thought? and What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan. He currently serves as the General Editor of Diacritics.

Translator's Introduction	p. vii
Preface: The Adventure of French Philosophy	p. li
Essays and Talks
The Current Situation on the Philosophical Front	p. 1
Hegel in France	p. 19
Commitment, Detachment, Fidelity	p. 27
Is There a Theory of the Subject in the Work of Georges Canguilhem?	p. 39
The Caesura of Nihilism	p. 53
The Reserved Offering	p. 67
Foucault: Continuity and Discontinuity	p. 83
Jacques Rancière's Lessons: Knowledge and Power After the Storm	p. 101
Book Reviews
The (Re)commencement of Dialectical Materialism	p. 133
The Flux and the Party: In the Margins of Anti-Oedipus	p. 171
The Fascism of the Potato	p. 191
An Angel Has Passed	p. 203
Custos, quid noctis?	p. 223
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque	p. 241
Objectivity and Objectivity	p. 269
On Françoise Proust, Kant: The Tone of History	p. 281
The Imperative of Negation	p. 295
Logology Against Ontology	p. 309
The Subject Supposed to be a Christian	p. 321
Notices
For a Tomb of Gilles Deleuze	p. 339
Jullien the Apostate	p. 343
A Note on the Texts	p. 347
Index	p. 353
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The Adventure of French Philosophy

The Adventure of French Philosophy

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