Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Society, Economy and Culture in Transition

Professor Michael Hauser (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-43784-5 (ISBN)

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Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of but departing from those two towering modes of late 20th-century culture. Seen in this light, the preoccupation of populism, identity politics, hybrid wars and other contemporary phenomena can be seen as the result of the disintegration of neoliberal agendas and postmodernist sensibilities.

Drawing together a vast range of thinkers and theoretical models, from Gramsci to Jameson, Hauser traces the reasons for the decline and demise of the grand narratives of the twentieth century and the ideologies that replaced them. His explanation of the foundational ‘epicycloid’ and disintegrative ‘elliptical’ stages of political movements then lays the ground for a deep engagement with Alain Badiou, understanding his ‘transitory ontology’ as a philosophical response to our interregnum. By expanding and unpicking Badiou’s thoughts on mathematics, politics, art, love, and the conditions of doing philosophy, we can imagine a point beyond the present moment in history.

Michael Hauser is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science, and an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Preface

Introduction : The Liberating Power of Generalization and the Prehistory of the Interregnum

Part I: The Eccentric Interregnum
First Section: The Epicyclic Period (1989-2000/2008)
1. Neoliberalism With Traces of Communism
2. Postmodernism, In Which Modernism is Extinguished
Conclusion of the First Section: The Epicyclic Character of the First Period of the Interregnum

Second Section: The Elliptical Period (2000/2008-present)
Introduction: The Path to a Pure Interregnum
1. Fractured Neoliberalism
2. Contemporary Culture and Politics as Infinite Circulation

Part 2: Badiou's Transitive Ontology
Introduction: The Philosophy of Truths as a Response to the Interregnum
1. Situating Badiou in the Interregnum
2. The Philosophical Exodus from the Interregnum: Event, Truth, and the Subject as a Composition of Unity and Multiplicity
3. The Interregnum as the Age of the Absolute

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2025
Zusatzinfo	3 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-350-43784-0 / 1350437840
ISBN-13	978-1-350-43784-5 / 9781350437845
Zustand	Neuware