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‘Dialectical voluntarism’ as a basis of politics

What is the basis of an emancipatory politics? In what does collective human freedom consist? Although he doesn’t phrase it in these terms, these are the questions (I would say) that underlie Hallward’s investigation in this essay, which originally appeared in Radical Philosophy. ‘Voluntarism’ refers to a theory giving some sort of primacy to the [...]

Logics of Worlds: Hallward’s review

Alain Badiou’s Logics of Worlds is a recent and major work by this important and radical philosopher, and we will be taking this up from many different angles on this site. Following is a review of the work by Peter Hallward, who has been a major interpreter of Badiou’s thought in English — in fact [...]