Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works including Being and Event (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Theory of the Subject (Bloomsbury, 2013).

• The Subtractive: Preface by Francois WahlAcknowledgementsI. Philosophy Itself1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself2. Definition of philosophy3. What is a philosophical institution?II. Philosophy and Poetry4. The philosophical recourse to the poem5. Mallarmé's method: subtraction and isolation6. Rimbaud's method: interruptionIII. Philosophy and Mathematics7. Philosophy and mathematics8. Conference on subtraction9. Truth: forcing and unnameable IV. Philosophy and Politics10. Philosophy and politicsV. Philosophy and Love11. What is love?VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis13. Subject and infinite14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and PlatoVII. Writing of the Generic15. Writing of the generic: Samuel BeckettNotes Index

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

Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works including Being and Event (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Theory of the Subject (Bloomsbury, 2013).

• The Subtractive: Preface by Francois WahlAcknowledgementsI. Philosophy Itself1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself2. Definition of philosophy3. What is a philosophical institution?II. Philosophy and Poetry4. The philosophical recourse to the poem5. Mallarmé's method: subtraction and isolation6. Rimbaud's method: interruptionIII. Philosophy and Mathematics7. Philosophy and mathematics8. Conference on subtraction9. Truth: forcing and unnameable IV. Philosophy and Politics10. Philosophy and politicsV. Philosophy and Love11. What is love?VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis13. Subject and infinite14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and PlatoVII. Writing of the Generic15. Writing of the generic: Samuel BeckettNotes Index

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

Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works including Being and Event (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Theory of the Subject (Bloomsbury, 2013).

• The Subtractive: Preface by Francois WahlAcknowledgementsI. Philosophy Itself1. The (re)turn of philosophy itself2. Definition of philosophy3. What is a philosophical institution?II. Philosophy and Poetry4. The philosophical recourse to the poem5. Mallarmé's method: subtraction and isolation6. Rimbaud's method: interruptionIII. Philosophy and Mathematics7. Philosophy and mathematics8. Conference on subtraction9. Truth: forcing and unnameable IV. Philosophy and Politics10. Philosophy and politicsV. Philosophy and Love11. What is love?VI. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis12. Philosophy and psychoanalysis13. Subject and infinite14. Antiphilosophy: Lacan and PlatoVII. Writing of the Generic15. Writing of the generic: Samuel BeckettNotes Index

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