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Call for Contributions: Vol. 6 (2018) – Interrogating the Idea

Call for Papers: Due 3rd September 2018

In recent works the concept of the ‘Idea’ has shifted from a peripheral concern to a much more crucial, decisive and prominent term within Badiou’s philosophical project – but one which has yet to find an appropriate place within Badiou’s typology.

Aside from the generic, non-technical, layperson’s usage, Badiou deploys a wide range of uses across his oeuvre.

In Being and Event, for instance, we find an intriguing interplay between a revisionary but historically sensitive use of the Idea vis-à-vis Plato – and to a lesser extent, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant and Hegel – and a particularly Badiouian sense of the Idea as a term interchangeable – or at least inextricably linked – with mathematical axioms.

In the latter sense, Badiou’s recognition of mathematics as the pure ontological discourse par excellence res