25 Dec
2025
Crisis and Critique
Volume 12 / Issue 2, 25-12-2025
Edited by Edited by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda
Introduction
Introduction: Alain Badiou: Philosophy, History and the Transformations of the Dialectic
by Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza
Table of Contents
A Sketch of a Portrait of Alain Badiou's Philosophy
by Judith Balso / Judith Badiou
Die Geschichtsschrift – on Formalising History
by Daniel C. Barry
Chancing on Byzantium
by Jason Barker and Justin Clemens
Riot, Movement, Organization: Alain Badiou and the Critique of Historical Reason
by Bruno Bosteels
Alain Badiou and the Dialectic of the Present
by Arka Chattopadhyay
Phantom of Inconsistency and Spectre of the Void
by Lorenzo Chiesa
'Truth, Being, Practice: On Badiou’s Immanence of Truths’
by Peter Hallward
Cut is a Form of Thinking
by Isiah Medina
Logics of Choice and Equivocations of the Absolute
by Quentin Meillassoux
Badiou’s Symptom: The Subject of Science and the Shadow of Capital in the Descartes and Lacan Seminars
by Nick Nesbitt
Seven Crossings of the Shadow Line Inspired by the Philosophy of Alain Badiou
by François Nicolas
An Encounter with Alain Badiou at Beijing University
by Claudia Pozzana
Too Close, Still Missing
by Valerio Romitelli
Philosophy and Maoism in France: Interview with Alain Badiou
by Valerio Romitelli and Alessandro Russo
The Beginning of a Long Friendship: The 1978 Interview with Alain Badiou
by Alessandro Russo
Badiou’s Passage – The End of Antiphilosophy
by Frank Ruda
Two Fidelities. Badiou’s Philosophical Inquiries Intro Politics
by Alessandro Russo
Preliminaries. Badiou, Hegel, Parmenides
by Armin Schneider
First approach to a Third Manifesto of Philosophy
by Thomas Rudhof- Seibert
Dance as (a Metaphor for) Thought, Part Two: A Reconfiguration of the Badiouian Conception of Dance
by Evan Supple
Via Subtractiva: On the Identity of Thinking and Being
by Tzuchien Tho
Alain Badiou and Foreign Languages
by Isabelle Vodoz
Excrescence, Errancy, and Dis-Ease in Badiou’s Being and Event Trilogy
by Becky Vartabedian
On the Young Badiou – Questions of Theory
by Jan Weise
Interview with Alain Badiou: A Renewed Universality
Notes on Contributors
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