{"title":"Series: The Seminars of Alain Badiou","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Seminars of Alain Badiou\u003c\/strong\u003e offer a profound exploration into contemporary philosophy, inviting readers to engage with complex ideas on being, truth, and subjectivity. Each seminar presents Badiou's distinctive approach to critical thought, blending rigorous analysis with a passion for intellectual inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those drawn to \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e, this series challenges conventional perspectives and encourages a deep rethinking of cultural and political realities. Readers can expect a rich engagement with themes that resonate across disciplines and provoke thoughtful reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"images-of-the-present-time-by-alain-badiou-9780231216692","title":"Images of the Present Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlain 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImages of the Present Time\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eLogics of Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e, the second of the three volumes of \u003cem\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing some of the philosopher's most inspiring and approachable work, \u003cem\u003eImages of the Present Time\u003c\/em\u003e is an important book for all readers interested in the practical as well as conceptual possibilities of Badiou's thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000644223212,"sku":"9780231216692","price":125.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8223623482270.jpg?v=1763293008"},{"product_id":"images-of-the-present-time-by-alain-badiou-9780231176064","title":"Images of the Present Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlain 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImages of the Present Time\u003c\/em\u003e presents nearly three years of Badiou's seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, partly against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing some of the philosopher's most inspiring and approachable work, \u003cem\u003eImages of the Present Time\u003c\/em\u003e is an important book for all readers interested in the practical as well as conceptual possibilities of Badiou's thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000644255980,"sku":"9780231176064","price":246.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7817343482270.jpg?v=1763293015"},{"product_id":"the-one-by-alain-badiou-9780231218801","title":"The One","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlain Badiou's 1983–1984 lecture series on \u003cem\u003ethe One\u003c\/em\u003e is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no \"One\": there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is novel in Badiou's view of multiplicity is his reliance on mathematics, and set theory in particular. A set is a collection of things—yet, as he observes, it often is taken to \"count as one\" operationally for the purposes of mathematical transformations. In this seminar, distinguishing between \"the One\" and \"counting as one\" emerges as essential to Badiou's ontological project. His analysis of reflections on oneness in Descartes, Plato, and Kant prefigures core arguments of his defining work, \u003cem\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShowcasing the seeds of Badiou's key ideas and later thought, \u003cem\u003eThe One\u003c\/em\u003e features singular readings, breathtaking theorizations, and frequently astonishing offhand remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000802459884,"sku":"9780231218801","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8244713482270.jpg?v=1763306005"},{"product_id":"the-one-by-alain-badiou-9780231194129","title":"The One","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlain Badiou's 1983–1984 lecture series on \"the One\" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. 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French leftist thinkers celebrated Nietzsche in the second half of the twentieth century, but when a backlash emerged in the 1990s, Badiou refused to join the attack. Instead, Badiou devoted his 1992-1993 seminar to an astonishingly original reading of Nietzsche—to whom he had previously shown indifference or scorn—in which he appears almost enamoured with the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Anti-Christ\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEcce Homo\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book presents Badiou's seminar on Nietzsche's late works, which for the first time addresses what would become one of his central concepts: anti-philosophy and its adversarial yet intimate relationship with philosophy. For Badiou, Nietzsche is the key modern anti-philosopher, his antagonist—and occasional ally—in the battle to redefine the work of philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBadiou takes for granted Nietzsche's declaration that \u003cem\u003eGod is dead\u003c\/em\u003e, yet he rejects Nietzsche's assertion that philosophy too is past its expiration date. Badiou engages a century-long tradition of grappling with Nietzsche's paradoxes, considering thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze, and Derrida. Examining Nietzsche's impassioned writings on Wagner, he reflects on the nature of art and aesthetics. 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