Table of Contents

Series Preface
Introduction: Badiou, The Modernist
Arka Chattopadhyay, IIT Gandhinagar, India, and Arthur Rose, University of Exeter, UK

Part I Badiou's Modernisms: Debts and Contestations

1. Mal/Bad, Beck/Worse: Badiou Thinks Poetically through Mallarmé and Beckett
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA

2. Alain Badiou’s Dialectical (Non-)Gesture of Modernity: Poetry, Mastery, Undecidability
Soumyabrata Choudhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

3. Badiou, Hegel, and the Thinking of Modernist Thought Action
Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne, Australia

4. The Eternal Return of the Modern: Poetry, History, Philosophy
Bruno Bosteels, Columbia University, USA

5. Badiou, Lacan and Mathematical Modernisms
Arka Chattopadhyay, IIT Gandhinagar, India

6. Badiou and Mad Love
Arthur Rose, University of Exeter, UK

Part II Modernism's Multiple Badious: Conditions and Manifestations

7. Twisting Modernism around Mallarmé's White Hair: Badiou versus Rancière
Joseph Shafer, University College Cork, Ireland, and Auburn University, USA

8. Reflections on Cinema and Philosophy
Alex Ling, Western Sydney University, Australia

9. Modern Love Theory: James, Badiou and "The Story in It"
Sigi Jöttkandt, University of New South Wales, Australia

10. Derrida's and Badiou's Absolute Modern(ist) Surfaces
James Martell, Lyon College, USA

11. Approaching a Non-Modern Historical Theory: Catholic Theology, Alain Badiou, and Antihistory
Michael J. Kelly, Binghamton University (SUNY), USA

12. Badiou, Music, Novelty
Adity Singh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India

13. The Thinking of Representation: Badiou and Modernist Theatre
Eloïse Mignon, University of Melbourne, Australia

Part III Glossary

15. ‘The Age of Poets’
Christian R. Gelder, Macquarie University, Australia

16. Maoism
Robert Boncardo, University of Sydney, Australia

17. Grace
Baylee Brits, Independent Scholar

18. Ontology and Greater Logic
John Cleary, University of Melbourne, Australia

Notes on Contributors
Index

Promotional Information

Explores and illuminates the impact of the French philosopher Alain Badiou on our understanding of literary, aesthetic, and political modernism.

About the Author

Arka Chattopadhyay is Assistant 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).