Alain Badiou - Seminars / Workshops / Lectures
PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, ART: A Manifesto for Philosophy. (3 credits)
Alain Badiou, Ph.D.
Description: This course is in defense of systematic philosophy and in a critical dialogue with Gilles Deleuze, basic issues such as the ethics of fidelity, truth, politics, and art are rediscovered, proclaiming a manifesto.
Objectives: Students shall investigate the relationship between philosophy, ethics and art. The course will be essential to enlarging one's vocabulary in the pre-eminent philosophical debates of today. Through intensive discussion in small seminars students and Badiou will engage the space of dialogue and debate. Students are expected to extensively read the required material and bring their own personal research as it relates to the work to the classroom. It is essential that students engage the texts in a critical and open manner.
Learning Outcomes: Students will have learned the philosophical work of Alain Badiou. Students will demonstrate their philosophical background through applying Badiou's thoughts to their research projects. Students will be prepared to enter academic debates surrounding the key themes of ethics, truth, politics and art. Through delving into the realms of systematic philosophy students will gain a stronger grasp on the process that we call thinking. Students will be able to place Badiou's work within a larger theoretical system and be able to produce literary criticism based on his works.
Required Readings and Assignments:
Badiou, Alain and Louise Burchill (Translator). Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. Univ Of Minnesota Press. December 7, 1999. Paperback, 176 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0816631409. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Hardcover, ISBN: 0816631395. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Badiou, Alain and Oliver Feltham (Translator). Being and Event. Continuum. March 1, 2006. Hardcover, 560 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0826458319. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Badiou, Alain and Peter Hallward (Translator). Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Verso. May 3, 2004. Hardcover, 224 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1859842976. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Recommended Readings and Assignments:
Badiou, Alain and Alberto Toscano (Translator). Logics of Worlds (Being and Event, 2). Contiuum. May 19, 2009. Hardcover, 640 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0826494706. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Badiou, Alain and Steven Corcoran (Translator). Conditions. Continuum. January 7, 2009. Hardcover, 314 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0826498272. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Badioiu, Alain and Bruno Bosteels (Translator). Theory of the Subject. Continuum. July 28, 2009. Hardcover, 367 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0826496733. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Žižek, Slavoj, Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann. Philosophy in the present. Polity. 2009. Hardcover, 80 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0745640966. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, ISBN: 0745640974. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.