Covering Part 1 of Alain Badiou’s Being and Event on the topic of “Being,” Alex and Andrew introduce some foundational concepts and address Badiou’s relation to other philosophers.
Guest Knox Peden outlines where Badiou fits within the intellectual history of French philosophy, Marxism, and science. Peden is author of Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze (published in 2014). Knox has also worked as an editor and translator including collaborations on Cahiers pour l'Analyse (published as Concept and Form, volumes 1 and 2) and On Logic and the Theory of Science by Jean Cavaillès.
Schools of Philosophy
Math and the Philosophy of Mathematics, a Mathematic Ontology based in Set Theory, Being Qua Being, Martin Heidegger and Badiou’s Critique of Poetic Ontology, Post-Cartesian Theories of the Subject from Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacan, Logical Positivism and the Vienna Circle.
Key Thinkers and Concepts
Jean Cavaillès, Albert Lautman, Georg Cantor, and Kurt Gödel, Axiomatic Set Theory (Axiom of Extensionality, Power Sets, Axiom of Union, Axiom of Separation, Axioms of Replacement and Substitution), The Count, The One, Void, ∅ (Mark Naught), Nature, Name, Cardinality.
Interview with Knox Peden
French Marxism, Marxist Science and Ideology, Rationalism, Empiricism, Phenomenology and Edmund Husserl, Gaston Bachelard and Philosophy of Science, Truth, Cahiers pour l’Analyse including Jacques-Alain Miller and Jean-Claude Milner, “Mark and Lack,” the Subject, Suture.
Links
Knox Peden profile, https://hass.uq.edu.au/profile/7697/knox-peden
Peden, Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze, https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22793
Hallward and Peden, Concept and Form, two volumes dedicated to Cahiers pour l’Analyse, https://www.versobooks.com/series_collections/35-concept-and-form
Cahiers pour l'Analyse(electronic edition) http://cahiers.kingston.ac.uk/
Cavaillès, On Logic and the Theory of Science, translated by Peden and Mackay, https://www.urbanomic.com/book/logic-theory-science/