Alain Badiou's Being and Event, Mini-Review
I like to write small reviews - recapitulations, really - of some of the books I've read. I'm putting a couple up here as part of my end of year 'round up' of books for 2022. Here's one for Badiou's Being and Event : Like all great works of philosophy, Badiou’s Being and Event is a wager. A wager on the possibility of Events, of ruptures in the weave of things, both personal and political, staking itself there where the possibility of a better world shines like a light through the crack in things. This much, I think, is known even by those with a passing familiarity of Badiou, whose association with the theme of the Event has been at the heart of the philosopher that he is. Nonetheless, what seems to go often unremarked in glosses on Badiou’s philosophy is the rigor to which devotes himself to the question of - not the break of the Event, but the continuum of Being. Indeed, what is utterly striking in Being and Event is the attention given to continuity, and...