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1. Introduction : an inquiry into forms of life -- 2. Origins of paradoxico-criticism : structuralism and analytic philosophy -- 3. Deleuze, Plato, and the paradoxes of sense -- 4. Derrida and formalism : formalizing the undecidable -- 5. Wittgenstein and Parmenides -- 6. Wittgenstein and Turing -- 7. Formalism and force : the many worlds of Badiou -- 8. Badiou versus paradoxico-criticism -- 9. Paradoxico-critique of Badiou -- 10. The politics of logic : critical and practical consequences.

In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their development and transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical structures forms the backbone of his comprehensive and provocative theory of ontology, politics, and the possibilities of radical change. Through interpretive readings of Badiou's work as well as the texts of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Livingston develops a formally based taxonomy of critical positions on the nature and structure of political communities. These readings, along with readings of Parmenides and Plato, show how the formal results can transfigure two interrelated and ancient problems of the One and the Many: the problem of the relationship of a Form or Idea to the many of its participants, and the problem of the relationship of a social whole to its many constituents.

Phenomenology and epistemology ; how do we know what we know? -- Ontology, logic, and philosophy of language ; what is the structure of the world? -- Metaphysics ; what goes beyond the physical world? -- Metaethics, ethics, and politics ; what is to be done? -- Metaphilosophy, aesthetics, and critique ; what does it mean to orient ourselves philosophically?

Rethinks objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and Marxism – beyond the realism–nominalism divideRethinks the concept of objectivity through its relation to fiction beyond their mere oppositionConceptualises 'objective fictions'Highlights a shared background underpinning realist and nominalist approaches to the relation between subjectivity and objectivityRevitalises modern/contemporary philosophical currents, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist critique of political economy beyond the realism-nominalism divideIncludes contributions from a mix of renowned thinkers and from the new generation, including Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo TomšičRelying on contemporary continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist tradition, this volume moves beyond the deadlock between nominalism and realism. It rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction through engaging with a series of 'objective fictions', including fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies, and conspiracy theories, among other phenomena. What all these phenomena exhibit are paradoxical entanglements of subjectivity with objectivity and of fiction with truth.When it comes to questions of objectivity in current philosophical debates and public discourse, we are witnessing the re-emergence and growing importance of two classical, opposed approaches: nominalism and (metaphysical) realism. Today's nominalist stances, by absolutizing intersubjectivity, are moving towards the abandonment of the very notion of truth and objective reality. By contrast, today's realist positions, including those bound up with scientific discourse, insist on the category of the object-in-itself as irreducible to any kind of subjective mediation. However, despite their seeming mutual exclusivity, both approaches share fundamental presuppositions, namely, those of neat separations between the spheres of subjectivity and objectivity as well as between the realms of fiction and truth.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On a Disjunctive Synthesis between Lacan and Deleuze -- Chapter 1 For Another Lacan-Deleuze Encounter -- Chapter 2 Reciprocal Portrait of Jacques Lacan in Gilles Deleuze -- Chapter 3 Does the Body without Organs Have Any Sex at All? Lacan and Deleuze on Perversion and Sexual Difference -- Chapter 4 Gnomonology: Deleuze's Phobias and the Line of Flight between Speech and the Body -- Chapter 5 Lacan, Deleuze and the Politics of the Face -- Chapter 6 Denkwunderkeiten: On Deleuze, Schreber and Freud -- Chapter 7 Snark, Jabberwock, Poord'jeli: Deleuze and the Lacanian School on the Names-of-the-Father -- Chapter 8 Baroque Structuralism: Deleuze, Lacan and the Critique of Linguistics -- Chapter 9 Exalted Obscenity and the Lawyer of God: Lacan, Deleuze and the Baroque -- Chapter 10 The Death Drive -- Chapter 11 Repetition and Difference: Žižek, Deleuze and Lacanian Drives -- Chapter 12 Lacan, Deleuze and the Consequences of Formalism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index