Concept and Form, Volume 1

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Selections from the 'Cahiers pour l'Analyse'

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Concept and Form, Volume 1 presents English translations of key theoretical texts from the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), a landmark French philosophy journal rooted in structuralism. Guided by Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, the journal’s editors shifted focus from interpreting meanings to analysing the structures shaping discourse across psychological, ideological, literary, scientific, and political realms. The volume features works by influential thinkers including Alain Badiou and Jacques-Alain Miller, preparing readers for the revolutionary transformation of these conceptual frameworks.
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This volume is suited for readers with interests in French philosophy, structuralism, and the theoretical foundations of discourse analysis. Scholars and students of philosophy and psychology will find it particularly valuable.

First systematic presentation and assessment of the groundbreaking journal Cahiers pour l'Analyse.

First systematic presentation and assessment of the groundbreaking journal Cahiers pour l'Analyse

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Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (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 Cahiers sought 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.

This 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 François 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 Cahiers texts, produced by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London and accessible at cahiers.kingston.ac.uk.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844678723

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 December 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Contributors:

Edited by Peter Hallward
Contributions by Alain Badiou
Edited by Knox Peden
Contributions by Alain Grosrichard
Contributions by François Regnault
Contributions by Jacques-Alain Miller
Contributions by Jean-Claude Milner
Contributions by Serge Leclaire
Contributions by Yves Duroux

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 434g

Pages: 272

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Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Knox Peden is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books including Absolutely Postcolonial, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, and Damming the Flood. Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the E?cole 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 Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy. Alain Grosrichard is Professor of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Literature at the University of Geneva and was a member of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne. He has published widely on psychoanalysis and the history of literature. Jacques-Alain Miller is Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII and editor of Lacan's Seminars.