Conditions - Badiou, Alain (London ; New York : Continuum, 2008)
The subtractive : preface / Francois Wahl -- The (re)turn of philoso phy itself -- Definition of philosophy -- What is a philosophical insti tution? or address, transmission, inscription -- The philosophical reco urse to the poem -- Mallarmâe's method : subtraction and isolation -- R imbaud's method : interruption -- Philosophy and mathematics -- On subt raction -- Truth : forcing and unnameable -- Philosophy and politics -- What is love? -- Philosophy and psychoanalysis -- The subject and inf inite -- Antiphilosophy : Lacan and Plato -- Writing of the generic : S amuel Beckett.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the French.
Keywords: Philosophy, French -- 20th century