Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Steven Corcoran is the editor and translator of Alain Badiou's Polemics (Verso, 2006) and Jacques Ranciere's Hatred of Democracy (Verso, 2007). He is currently completing his doctoral studies in Continental Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• The Subtractive: Preface by Francois Wahl; I. Philosophy Itself; 1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself; 2. Definition of philosophy; 3. What is a philosophical institution?; II. Philosophy and Poetry; 4. The philosophical recourse to the poem; 5. Mallarme's method: subtraction and isolation; 6. Rimbaud's method: interruption; III. Philosophy and Mathematics; 7. Philosophy and mathematics; 8. Conference on subtraction; 9. Truth: forcing and unnameable; IV. Philosophy and Politics; 10. Philosophy and politics; V. Philosophy and Love; 11. What is love?; VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis; 12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis; 13. Subject and infinite; 14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and Plato; VII. Writing of the Generic; 15. Writing of the generic: Samuel Beckett.

"Conditions is the essential complement to Being and Event: a fascinating introduction to both its problematics and also their masterly depth." - Quentin Meillassoux

Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Steven Corcoran is the editor and translator of Alain Badiou's Polemics (Verso, 2006) and Jacques Ranciere's Hatred of Democracy (Verso, 2007). He is currently completing his doctoral studies in Continental Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• The Subtractive: Preface by Francois Wahl; I. Philosophy Itself; 1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself; 2. Definition of philosophy; 3. What is a philosophical institution?; II. Philosophy and Poetry; 4. The philosophical recourse to the poem; 5. Mallarme's method: subtraction and isolation; 6. Rimbaud's method: interruption; III. Philosophy and Mathematics; 7. Philosophy and mathematics; 8. Conference on subtraction; 9. Truth: forcing and unnameable; IV. Philosophy and Politics; 10. Philosophy and politics; V. Philosophy and Love; 11. What is love?; VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis; 12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis; 13. Subject and infinite; 14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and Plato; VII. Writing of the Generic; 15. Writing of the generic: Samuel Beckett.

"Conditions is the essential complement to Being and Event: a fascinating introduction to both its problematics and also their masterly depth." - Quentin Meillassoux

Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Steven Corcoran is the editor and translator of Alain Badiou's Polemics (Verso, 2006) and Jacques Ranciere's Hatred of Democracy (Verso, 2007). He is currently completing his doctoral studies in Continental Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• The Subtractive: Preface by Francois Wahl; I. Philosophy Itself; 1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself; 2. Definition of philosophy; 3. What is a philosophical institution?; II. Philosophy and Poetry; 4. The philosophical recourse to the poem; 5. Mallarme's method: subtraction and isolation; 6. Rimbaud's method: interruption; III. Philosophy and Mathematics; 7. Philosophy and mathematics; 8. Conference on subtraction; 9. Truth: forcing and unnameable; IV. Philosophy and Politics; 10. Philosophy and politics; V. Philosophy and Love; 11. What is love?; VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis; 12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis; 13. Subject and infinite; 14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and Plato; VII. Writing of the Generic; 15. Writing of the generic: Samuel Beckett.

"Conditions is the essential complement to Being and Event: a fascinating introduction to both its problematics and also their masterly depth." - Quentin Meillassoux