Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism

Arka Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar, India. He is the author of Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-editor of Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics (Bloomsbury 2020). Arthur Rose is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee (Bloomsbury 2017) and co-editor of Theories of History (Bloomsbury 2018).

• Series PrefaceIntroduction: Badiou, The ModernistArka Chattopadhyay, IIT Gandhinagar, India, and Arthur Rose, University of Exeter, UKPart I Badiou's Modernisms: Debts and Contestations1. Mal/Bad, Beck/Worse: Badiou Thinks Poetically through Mallarmé and BeckettJean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA2. Alain Badiou’s Dialectical (Non-)Gesture of Modernity: Poetry, Mastery, UndecidabilitySoumyabrata Choudhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India3. Badiou, Hegel, and the Thinking of Modernist Thought ActionJustin Clemens, University of Melbourne, Australia4. The Eternal Return of the Modern: Poetry, History, PhilosophyBruno Bosteels, Columbia University, USA5. Badiou, Lacan and Mathematical ModernismsArka Chattopadhyay, IIT Gandhinagar, India6. Badiou and Mad LoveArthur Rose, University of Exeter, UKPart II Modernism's Multiple Badious: Conditions and Manifestations7. Twisting Modernism around Mallarmé's White Hair: Badiou versus RancièreJoseph Shafer, University College Cork, Ireland, and Auburn University, USA8. Reflections on Cinema and PhilosophyAlex Ling, Western Sydney University, Australia9. Modern Love Theory: James, Badiou and "The Story in It"Sigi Jöttkandt, University of New South Wales, Australia10. Derrida's and Badiou's Absolute Modern(ist) SurfacesJames Martell, Lyon College, USA11. Approaching a Non-Modern Historical Theory: Catholic Theology, Alain Badiou, and AntihistoryMichael J. Kelly, Binghamton University (SUNY), USA12. Badiou, Music, NoveltyAdity Singh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India13. The Thinking of Representation: Badiou and Modernist TheatreEloïse Mignon, University of Melbourne, AustraliaPart III Glossary15. ‘The Age of Poets’Christian R. Gelder, Macquarie University, Australia16. MaoismRobert Boncardo, University of Sydney, Australia17. GraceBaylee Brits, Independent Scholar18. Ontology and Greater LogicJohn Cleary, University of Melbourne, AustraliaNotes on ContributorsIndex

Should Alain Badiou—one of the most controversial thinkers alive who is working for the contemporary renewal of Platonism—also be able to guide us through “modernism”? The essays in the present collection contend so and they do this with force, demonstrating how we can think mathematics, love, art and even politics anew: from the perspective of our (modern) Plato.