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In David Hume's science of human nature every self is located by passions that bind it to groups, repel it from other groups, and rank it on a hierarchy: we call this discovery a 'topology of the passions'. These bound and ranked selves and groups form the matter of what he called 'government', a supposedly neutral model of political action designed to avoid the malady of faction and catapult Scotland out of feudalism into a glorious future as a commercial society, assisted by the application of the new discipline of political economy, a discipline blind beyond its functional measures of privileged variables - the growth of trade, interest rates, wage levels - measures that justify the destruction of all obstacles to the wholesale liberation of the commercial passions. To govern - a new kind of action for a new epoch - is to destroy and liberate. But ever since Hume, government has fallen apart because it fails to take into account the complexity of society as a topology of the passions. It is in Hume's History of Britain that we find the germs of another destiny for modernity in his ambivalent account of the revolutionary impact and danger of another model of political action - democratic enthusiasm - wherein to act is to incarnate an idea of commonality

Modern liberalism begins in the forgetting of the English Revolution. Anatomy of Failure seeks to right that wrong by exploring the concept of political action, playing its history against its philosophy. The 1640s are a period of institutional failure and political disaster: the country plunges into civil war, every agent is naked. Established procedures are thrown aside and the very grounds for action are fiercely debated and recast. Five queries emerge in the experience of the New Model Army, five queries that outline an anatomy of failure, isolating the points at which actors disagree, con

Alain Badiou is undoubtedly the most exciting and influential voice in contemporary French philosophy and one of the most important theorists at work today. His impact on continental philosophy and the wider philosophy community, politics and the arts in the last twenty years has been immense. Alain Badiou: Live Theory offers a concise and accessible introduction to his work and thought, laying out the central themes of his major works, including his magnum opus , Being and Event , and its long-awaited sequel, Logics of Worlds . Oliver Feltham explores the fundamental questions through which B

This article explores rival interpretations of Badiou's strategy behind the claim 'mathematics is ontology', from his construction of an alternative history of being to that of Heidegger to his exposure of the radical contingency of the 'decisions on being' carried out by transformative practices in the four conditions of philosophy: art, politics, love and science. The goal of this exploration is to open up the possibility of another strategy that responds to Badiou's initial intuition – that being is multiple – by embracing the writing of multiple ontologies in the sphere of action.

This article explores rival interpretations of Badiou's strategy behind the claim 'mathematics is ontology', from his construction of an alternative history of being to that of Heidegger to his exposure of the radical contingency of the 'decisions on being' carried out by transformative practices in the four conditions of philosophy: art, politics, love and science. The goal of this exploration is to open up the possibility of another strategy that responds to Badiou's initial intuition – that being is multiple – by embracing the writing of multiple ontologies in the sphere of action. ; Pričujoči članek raziskuje med sabo tekmujoče interpretacije Badioujeve strategije, kot jo lahko razberemo iz trditve, »matematika je ontologija«, pri čemer se opira na njegovo konstrukcijo alternative Heideggerjevi zgodovini biti kot tudi na razkritje radikalne kontingentnosti »odločitev glede biti«, kot jih je mogoče zaznati v transformacijskih praksah v štirih pogojih filozofije: umetnosti, politiki, ljubezni in znanosti. Namen te preiskave je odpreti možnosti za drugačno strategijo, ki ustreza Badioujevi izvorni intuiciji, da je namreč bit mnoštvo, in sicer tako, da prenesemo pisanje mnoštva ontologij na področje delovanja.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Rancière and Literature -- I Coordinates -- 1 Fictions of Time -- 2 Jacques Rancière in the Forest of Signs: Indiscipline, Figurality and Translation -- 3 Rancière and Tragedy -- 4 Rancière Lost: On John Milton and Aesthetics -- 5 'A New Mode of the Existence of Truth': Rancière and the Beginnings of Modernity 1780-1830 -- II Realisms -- 6 The Novelist and Her Poor: Nineteenth-Century Character Dynamics -- 7 'Broiled in Hell-fire': Melville, Rancière and the Heresy of Literarity -- 8 Why Maggie Tulliver Had To Be Killed -- 9 The Meaning in the Detail: Literature and the Detritus of the Nineteenth Century in Jacques Rancière and Walter Benjamin -- III Contemporaneities -- 10 Ineluctable Modality of the Sensible: Poverty and Form in Ulysses -- 11 The Politics of Realism in Rancière and Houellebecq -- 12 Literature, Politics and Action -- Index