François Laruelle: Anti-Badiou: On the Introduction of Maoism Into Philosophy (2011/2013)

“This compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, François Laruelle.

At face value, the two have much in common: both espouse a position of absolute immanence; both argue that philosophy is conditioned by science; and both command a pluralism of thought. Anti-Badiou relates the parallel stories of Badiou’s Maoist ‘ontology of the void’ and Laruelle’s own performative practice of ‘non-philosophy’ and explains why the two are in fact radically different. Badiou’s entire project aims to re-educate philosophy through one science: mathematics. Laruelle carefully examines Badiou’s Being and Event and shows how Badiou has created a new aristocracy that crowns his own philosophy as the master of an entire theoretical universe. In turn, Laruelle explains the contrast with his own non-philosophy as a true democracy of thought that breaks philosophy’s continual enthrall with mathematics and instead opens up a myriad of ‘non-standard’ places where thinking can be found and practised.”

Originally published as Anti-Badiou: sur l’introduction du maoïsme dans la philosophie by Éditions Kimé, Paris, 2011

Translated by Robin Mackay
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic, London/New York, 2013
ISBN 1441190767, 9781441190765
246 pages

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Abdel Rahman Badawi: Autobiography (2000) [Arabic]

يتحدث الكتاب في عن سيرة حياة أحد أهم المفكرين البارزين في مصر والذي كانت له إسهامات كبيرة في مجال التأليف، حيث كان لأكثرها الطابع الديني الإسلامي. يسوق المؤلف، وهو صاحب السيرة، سيرة حياته بكل مجرياتها والتي تزامنت مع أحداث مهمة على كل الأصعدة، السياسية، الاجتماعية، الثقافية، الدينية في مصر، وكان لهذه المجريات تأثير على مسيرته الفكرية. إنها سيرة تعكس نضال أهل الفكر، بصورة عامة والبدوي بصورة خاصة، في هذه الحياة في سبيل دفاعهم عن مبادئهم من ناحية، ونضالهم في سبيل إتمام رسالتهم التي خصهم الله بها من ناحية أخرى مكرسين حياتهم لإبداعهم، ولعطاءاتهم الثرّة التي تمثل في كلياتها كنزاً فكرياً عربياً، معينه لا ينضب

عبد الرحمن بدوي: سيرة حياتي
Publisher Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, Beirut, 2000
765 pages

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Lucy R. Lippard: Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change (1984)

“This book is the third collection of essays I’ve published in a little over a decade. Each of my books has marked the beginning of a specific phase of my life, though not necessarily its end. Changing (1971) was the product of my ‘formalist’ or art-educational period; it consisted primarily of essays written from 1965 to 1968, with a few late additions foreshadowing my next book-Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object.. (1973). From the Center (1976) and Eva Hesse (1976) documented my developing conversion to feminism, which expanded all the possibilities that had seemed to be closing down in the ‘cultural confinement’ of the early 1970s. Get the Message? is the result of a need to integrate the three sometimes contradictory elements of my public (and often private) life-art, feminism, left politics. Owing to publication delays, only two essays from the last two years are included.” (introductory note from the author)

Publisher E.P. Dutton, 1984
ISBN 0525480374, 9780525480372
343 pages
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Review: Fred Pfeil (Minnesota Review, 1985).

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