{"product_id":"concept-and-form-volume-1-selections-from-the-cahiers-pour-lanalyse-paperback","title":"Concept and Form, Volume 1: Selections from the Cahiers pour l'Analyse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Hallward\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKnox Peden\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConcept and Form \u003c\/i\u003eis a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the \u003ci\u003eCahiers pour l'Analyse \u003c\/i\u003e(1966-69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, the editors of the \u003ci\u003eCahiers \u003c\/i\u003esought to sever philosophy from the interpretation of given meanings or experiences, focusing instead on the mechanisms that structure specific configurations of discourse, from the psychological and ideological to the literary, scientific, and political. Adequate analysis of the operations at work in these configurations, they argue, helps prepare the way for their revolutionary transformation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis first volume comprises English translations of some of the most important theoretical texts published in the journal, written by thinkers who would soon be counted among the most inventive and influential of their generation: Alain Badiou, Yves Duroux, Alain Grosrichard, Serge Leclaire, Jacques-Alain Miller, Jean-Claude Milner, and Fran ois Regnault.The book is complemented by a second volume, consisting of essays and interviews that assess the significance and legacy of the journal, and by an online edition of the full set of original \u003ci\u003eCahiers \u003c\/i\u003etexts, produced by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London and accessible at cahiers.kingston.ac.uk.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Hallward\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eAbsolutely Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBadiou: A Subject to Truth, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOut of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDamming the Flood.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKnox Peden\u003c\/b\u003e is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManifesto for Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze\u003c\/i\u003e. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Sarkozy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMetapolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolemics, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Hypothesis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive Lessons on Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques-Alain Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII and editor of Lacan's \u003ci\u003eSeminars\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760180330784,"sku":"9781844678723","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/62ccbcd6a665bee4c3aa998113ce3417.webp?v=1780173741","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/concept-and-form-volume-1-selections-from-the-cahiers-pour-lanalyse-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}