An interrogation of Plato's entire work using the concepts and categories of Alain Badiou. This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a 'Platonism of the multiple' and that philosophy today requires a 'platonic gesture'. Examining the relationship between Badiou and Plato, Bartlett radically transforms our perception of Plato's philosophy and rethinks the central philosophical question: 'what is education?'
A. J. Bartlett is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy at Monash University. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (Edinburgh University Press, hb 2011, pb 2015) and translator, with Alex Ling, of Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).
This is not a work of commentary but an intervention: by actualising the categories of Badiou's Being and Event, Bartlett subverts the Aristotelian biases of Plato scholarship and exposes the sophistical basis of contemporary ideologies of education. The result brilliantly exemplifies the transformative import of Badiou's Platonism.
A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, Monash University) Bartlett, A. J. (Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy, University of Melbourne) Clemens, Justin (Associate Professor in Culture and Communication, A J Bartlett
A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, Jon Roffe, Monash University) Bartlett, A. J. (Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy, University of Melbourne) Clemens, Justin (Associate Professor in Culture and Communication, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy) Roffe, Jon (Lecturer in Philosophy, A J Bartlett
A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, Monash University) Bartlett, A. J. (Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy, University of Melbourne) Clemens, Justin (Associate Professor in Culture and Communication, A J Bartlett
A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, Jon Roffe, Monash University) Bartlett, A. J. (Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy, University of Melbourne) Clemens, Justin (Associate Professor in Culture and Communication, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy) Roffe, Jon (Lecturer in Philosophy, A J Bartlett