Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism

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Arka Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India) Dr Arthur Rose (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Durham, UK)

Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism

Arka Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India), Dr Arthur Rose (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Durham, UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic USA
13 June 2024

Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism

Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

In his philosophical project, aesthetic orientation and political leanings, Alain Badiou is a product of, and a leading advocate for, European modernism.

From the milieu of May 1968 to the contemporary ‘postmodern’ ethos, Badiou returns, time and again, to avant-garde modernist texts – aesthetic, political, philosophical and scientific – as inspiration for his response to present situations.

Drawing upon disciplines as varied as architecture, cinema, theatre, music, history, mathematics, poetry and philosophy, Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism shows how Badiou’s contribution to philosophy must be understood within the context of his decades-long conversation with modernist thinking.

As with other volumes in the series, Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism follows a three part structure.

The first section explores Badiou’s readings of aesthetic, political and scientific modernities; both introducing his system and pointing to how Badiou offers manifold readings of modernism. The middle portion of the book connects Badiou’s thought with the various strands of aesthetic, philosophical, amorous and political modernisms in relation to which it can be extended. The final section is a glossary of key concepts and categories that Badiou uses in his interface with modernism.

Edited by: Arka Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar India), Dr Arthur Rose (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Durham, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781501384400
ISBN 10: 1501384406
Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 13 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Series Preface Introduction: Badiou, The Modernist Arka Chattopadhyay, IIT Gandhinagar, India, and Arthur Rose, University of Exeter, UK Part I Badiou's Modernisms: Debts and Contestations 1. Mal/Bad, Beck/Worse: Badiou Thinks Poetically through Mallarmé and Beckett Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA 2. Alain Badiou’s Dialectical (Non-)Gesture of Modernity: Poetry, Mastery, Undecidability Soumyabrata Choudhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India 3. Badiou, Hegel, and the Thinking of Modernist Thought Action Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne, Australia 4. The Eternal Return of the Modern: Poetry, History, Philosophy Bruno Bosteels, Columbia University, USA 5. Badiou, Lacan and Mathematical Modernisms Arka Chattopadhyay, IIT Gandhinagar, India 6. Badiou and Mad Love Arthur Rose, University of Exeter, UK Part II Modernism's Multiple Badious: Conditions and Manifestations 7. Twisting Modernism around Mallarmé's White Hair: Badiou versus Rancière Joseph Shafer, University College Cork, Ireland, and Auburn University, USA 8. Reflections on Cinema and Philosophy Alex Ling, Western Sydney University, Australia 9. Modern Love Theory: James, Badiou and ""The Story in It"" Sigi Jöttkandt, University of New South Wales, Australia 10. Derrida's and Badiou's Absolute Modern(ist) Surfaces James Martell, Lyon College, USA 11. Approaching a Non-Modern Historical Theory: Catholic Theology, Alain Badiou, and Antihistory Michael J. Kelly, Binghamton University (SUNY), USA 12. Badiou, Music, Novelty Adity Singh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India 13. The Thinking of Representation: Badiou and Modernist Theatre Eloïse Mignon, University of Melbourne, Australia Part III Glossary 15. ‘The Age of Poets’ Christian R. Gelder, Macquarie University, Australia 16. Maoism Robert Boncardo, University of Sydney, Australia 17. Grace Baylee Brits, Independent Scholar 18. Ontology and Greater Logic John Cleary, University of Melbourne, Australia Notes on Contributors Index"

Arka Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor of Literary Studies and Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar, India. He is the author of Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-editor of Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics (Bloomsbury 2020). Arthur Rose is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee (Bloomsbury 2017) and co-editor of Theories of History (Bloomsbury 2018).

Reviews for Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism

Should Alain Badiou—one of the most controversial thinkers alive who is working for the contemporary renewal of Platonism—also be able to guide us through “modernism”? The essays in the present collection contend so and they do this with force, demonstrating how we can think mathematics, love, art and even politics anew: from the perspective of our (modern) Plato. * Frank Ruda, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, University of Dundee, UK * A vigorous and varied collection of essays that examine Badiou’s relationship to modernisms in art, mathematics, music, and literature, and the eternal modernity of his thinking. The conditions of Badiou’s philosophy derive from his accounts of particular works of truth produced in specific historical situations which they nevertheless transcend, and by tracing the complexity and the contradictions that are inherent to this dialectic, these essays generate both nuanced interpretations and powerful theorizations. * Kenneth Reinhard, Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University of California, Los Angeles, USA * The question of Alain Badiou’s ‘modernism’ has haunted his critical reception. Whether according praise or blame this reception has more often that not sought simply to situate Badiou in its own terms, failing thereby to render an immanent account of his conditional, modernist allegiances.Thankfully, as the combined contributions to this expertly edited volume show, Badiou’s philosophy of ‘true change’ both explodes and renders void any such self-serving placement, demonstrating in turn how the philosopher establishes himself generically within a ‘second-modernity.' * A. J. Bartlett, Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, and author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (2011) *