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Approaching Alain Badiou as a militant thinker who wages theoretical battles to advance the communist hypothesis, this book explores the central ambiguity of his project: the enigmatic relationship between philosophy and politics.
On the one hand, Badiou's mature texts maintain a strict line of separation between the two thought-practices. On the other, he consistently links the philosophical pursuit of true life to a political revolt against injustice and domination.
By making a case for the French philosopher as a combative polemicist rather than a builder of grand ontological systems, The Philosophical Militant advances a new imperative for philosophy - to privilege active engagement with the present. Tracing Badiou's engagement with canonical philosophers, putting him in dialogue with contemporary theorists, and exploring the relevance of his ideas to the politics of Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic, this text foregrounds the actuality of Badiou's work. Not limiting itself to commentary on the philosopher's canonical texts, Gordienko aspires to think the contemporary moment with Badiou.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Philosopher as the Contemporary
Part I. Struggles on the Philosophical Battlefield
1. Politics and Philosophy in the Red Years: Sartre, Althusser, and the Problematic of Suture
2. The Cause of the People: Sartre's Encounter with Lacan in Badiou's Theory of the Subject
3. The Ethics of Communism: From Sartrean Responsibility to Lacanian Drive
4. Foucault, Badiou, and the Courage of Philosophy
Part II. Diagnoses of the Political Disease
5. "The Most Cynical Prostitution": Liberalism and Democracy
6. Is There a Theory of Neoliberalism in Badiou's Work?
7. Does the Left Dream of the Commune or the Lockdown?
8. Trump and the Erasure of Political Frontiers
Notes
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