附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translator's introduction -- Preface: The adventure of French philosophy -- pt. 1. Essays and talks. The current situation on the philosophical front -- Hegel in France -- Commitment, detachment, fidelity -- Is there a theory of the subject in the work of Georges Canguilhem? -- The Caesura of nihilism -- The reserved offering -- Foucault: continuity and discontinuity -- Jacques Rancière's lessons: knowledge and power after the storm -- pt. 2. Book reviews. The (re)commencement of dialectical materialism -- The flux and the party: in the margins of Anti-Oedipus -- The fascism of the potato -- An angel has passed -- Custos, quid noctis? -- Gilles Deleuze, The fold: Leibniz and the Baroque -- Objectivity and objectality -- On Françoise Proust, Kant: The tone of history -- The imperative of negation -- Logology against ontology -- The subject supposed to be a Christian -- pt. 3. Notices. For a tomb of Gilles Deleuze -- Jullien the Apostate -- A note on the texts.
摘要:Over forty years of French philosophy through the eyes of its greatest living exponent. The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the French moment in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser's canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of potato fascism in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought. Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea. Publisher's note.
