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Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity

Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou

Mohammad Reza Naderi

In Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou, Mohammad Reza Naderi elaborates on the trajectory of Alain Badiou’s philosophy by following a leading thread: the dominance of axiomatic thought and the category of mathematical infinity. According to this primary proposition, axiomatic thought is the only form of thinking adequate to the infinity of being. Using both primary and secondary literature, the author demonstrates two other major propositions: 1) The coherence of Badiou’s intellectual development from the early interventions to the publication of Being and Event, and 2) The formation of a theory Naderi calls “discipline.” By working through three dimensions of disciplinary thinking—interiority, novelty, and beginning—Naderi provides a new framework for understanding the inner structure of what Badiou calls “procedures of truths” and develops a new interpretation that ultimately reveals the inner logic of Badiou’s method.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 350 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66693-104-4 • Hardback • December 2023 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
Series: Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Critical Theory, Mathematics / Infinity, Philosophy / Metaphysics

Mohammad Reza Naderi, PhD,is a member of the research collective Subset of Theoretical Practice.

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Subject and Structure

Chapter 1: The Debate in Cahiers pour l’Analyse

Part II: Subject and Real

Chapter 2: Hegel is Divisible in Two

Chapter 3: Lacan is Our Hegel

Chapter 4: Lacan is Divisible in Two

Chapter 5: Toward a General Theory of Structure

Part III: Subject and Infinity

Chapter 6: Axiom

Chapter 7: Infinity

Chapter 8: Subject

Conclusion – Thinking Discipline

References

About the Author

In Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou, Mohammad Reza Naderi offers a new and comprehensive reading of the unity of Badiou's thought, from some of his first philosophical writings prior to the events of May '68 right up to Being and Event and beyond, in the context of his ongoing and decisive critical and dialectical engagements with Lacan and Hegel. Clearly written and insightful, Naderi's book witnesses the dramatic and relevant consequences of Badiou's insistence on the actuality of the infinite for the contemporary possibilities of thought across the domains of politics, science, logic and ethics, among others. Recommended for all those interested in the wide-ranging implications of the axiomatics of infinity for the possibilities of real novelty and fundamental transformation today.


— Paul Livingston, University of New Mexico


Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou offers an illuminating and insightful account of Badiou’s thought that will be appealing and accessible not only to readers unfamiliar with Badiou’s work, but also to all those interested in exploring the unexpected paths that Badiou’s writing traces across philosophy, mathematics, politics and psychoanalysis in search of an innovative theory and practice of axiomatic thinking.


— Jelica Šumič Riha, ZRC SAZU, Institute of Philosophy


Naderi’s Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity is a remarkable achievement. Though its main accomplishment is to discuss and further elaborate Badiou’s theory of the subject, through a masterful interplay of its philosophical, political, psychoanalytic and scientific sources, it also provides another, more subtle, result by re-establishing two continuities that are usually broken in the available literature on Badiou’s work. These include the connection between the formal and the conceptual, and the connection between his early work and his later project. The two are revealed to be in fact interdependent. It is only when one is not afraid to think through the mathematical underpinning of Badiou’s ideas that the conceptual connections between his first and later books and texts become clearer. Overall, this book is a great contribution that will prove itself very useful in redirecting the flow of Badiouian scholarship.


— Gabriel Tupinambá, Alameda Institute


Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity offers a highly original and compelling interrogation of Badiou's thought, arguing that his ceaseless compulsion to tarry with the infinite as an axiom of thought addresses three intertwined problems: those of beginning, interiority, and novelty. Presenting probing readings on three of Badiou's key texts―Mark and Lack, Theory of the Subject, and Being and Event―Reza Naderi's erudition and insight invites us to think the infinite with Badiou as the elaboration of a discipline, as nothing less than the initiation of a new era in thought.


— Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University


Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity

Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou

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Hardback
Summary
Summary
  • In Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou, Mohammad Reza Naderi elaborates on the trajectory of Alain Badiou’s philosophy by following a leading thread: the dominance of axiomatic thought and the category of mathematical infinity. According to this primary proposition, axiomatic thought is the only form of thinking adequate to the infinity of being. Using both primary and secondary literature, the author demonstrates two other major propositions: 1) The coherence of Badiou’s intellectual development from the early interventions to the publication of Being and Event, and 2) The formation of a theory Naderi calls “discipline.” By working through three dimensions of disciplinary thinking—interiority, novelty, and beginning—Naderi provides a new framework for understanding the inner structure of what Badiou calls “procedures of truths” and develops a new interpretation that ultimately reveals the inner logic of Badiou’s method.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 350 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-66693-104-4 • Hardback • December 2023 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
    Series: Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
    Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Critical Theory, Mathematics / Infinity, Philosophy / Metaphysics
Author
Author
  • Mohammad Reza Naderi, PhD,is a member of the research collective Subset of Theoretical Practice.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Part I: Subject and Structure

    Chapter 1: The Debate in Cahiers pour l’Analyse

    Part II: Subject and Real

    Chapter 2: Hegel is Divisible in Two

    Chapter 3: Lacan is Our Hegel

    Chapter 4: Lacan is Divisible in Two

    Chapter 5: Toward a General Theory of Structure

    Part III: Subject and Infinity

    Chapter 6: Axiom

    Chapter 7: Infinity

    Chapter 8: Subject

    Conclusion – Thinking Discipline

    References

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • In Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou, Mohammad Reza Naderi offers a new and comprehensive reading of the unity of Badiou's thought, from some of his first philosophical writings prior to the events of May '68 right up to Being and Event and beyond, in the context of his ongoing and decisive critical and dialectical engagements with Lacan and Hegel. Clearly written and insightful, Naderi's book witnesses the dramatic and relevant consequences of Badiou's insistence on the actuality of the infinite for the contemporary possibilities of thought across the domains of politics, science, logic and ethics, among others. Recommended for all those interested in the wide-ranging implications of the axiomatics of infinity for the possibilities of real novelty and fundamental transformation today.


    — Paul Livingston, University of New Mexico


    Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou offers an illuminating and insightful account of Badiou’s thought that will be appealing and accessible not only to readers unfamiliar with Badiou’s work, but also to all those interested in exploring the unexpected paths that Badiou’s writing traces across philosophy, mathematics, politics and psychoanalysis in search of an innovative theory and practice of axiomatic thinking.


    — Jelica Šumič Riha, ZRC SAZU, Institute of Philosophy


    Naderi’s Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity is a remarkable achievement. Though its main accomplishment is to discuss and further elaborate Badiou’s theory of the subject, through a masterful interplay of its philosophical, political, psychoanalytic and scientific sources, it also provides another, more subtle, result by re-establishing two continuities that are usually broken in the available literature on Badiou’s work. These include the connection between the formal and the conceptual, and the connection between his early work and his later project. The two are revealed to be in fact interdependent. It is only when one is not afraid to think through the mathematical underpinning of Badiou’s ideas that the conceptual connections between his first and later books and texts become clearer. Overall, this book is a great contribution that will prove itself very useful in redirecting the flow of Badiouian scholarship.


    — Gabriel Tupinambá, Alameda Institute


    Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity offers a highly original and compelling interrogation of Badiou's thought, arguing that his ceaseless compulsion to tarry with the infinite as an axiom of thought addresses three intertwined problems: those of beginning, interiority, and novelty. Presenting probing readings on three of Badiou's key texts―Mark and Lack, Theory of the Subject, and Being and Event―Reza Naderi's erudition and insight invites us to think the infinite with Badiou as the elaboration of a discipline, as nothing less than the initiation of a new era in thought.


    — Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University


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