Images of the present time : 2001-2004
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Images of the present time : 2001-2004
(The seminars of Alain Badiou / Kenneth Reinhard, general editor)
Columbia University Press, c2023
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French as Images du temps présent (2001-2004)
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"First published in French as Images du temps présent (2001-2004)"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time-that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into existence.
Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Badiou's seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, partly against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. Given while Badiou was writing Logics of Worlds, the second of the three volumes of Being and Event, these lectures address some of the same questions of existence in a particular world in a more personal and conversational tone, with reference to literature, philosophy, and contemporary politics and culture. He proposes a new concept of living in a real present as the twisting together of something from the past and something of the future.
Featuring some of the philosopher's most inspiring and approachable work, Images of the Present Time is an important book for all readers interested in the practical as well as conceptual possibilities of Badiou's thought.
Table of Contents
Editors' Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou
The Seminars of Alain Badiou (1983-2016): General Preface
Introduction to the Seminar Images of Present Time by Kenneth Reinhard
About the 2001-2004 Seminar
Year 1: Contemporary Nihilism
1. Session 1
2. Session 2
3. Session 3
4. Session 4
5. Session 5
6. Session 6
7. Session 7
Year 2: Logic of Exceptions
8. Session 1
9. Session 2
10. Session 3
11. Session 4
12. Session 5
13. Session 6
14. Session 7
15. Session 8
Year 3: What Does it Mean to Live?
16. Session 1
17. Session 2
18. Session 3
19. Session 4
20. Session 5
Notes
Index
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