Concept and Form 2 Volume Set
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First systematic presentation and assessment of the groundbreaking journal Cahiers pour l'Analyse.
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. The 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. The second volume collects newly commissioned essays on the journal, together with recent interviews with people who were either members of its editorial board or associated with its broader theoretical project. Contributors include Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Edward Baring, Jacques Bouveresse, Yves Duroux, Alain Grosrichard, Peter Hallward, Adrian Johnston, Serge Leclaire, Patrice Maniglier, Tracy McNulty, Jacques-Alain Miller, Jean-Claude Milner, Knox Peden, Jacques Rancière, François Regnault, and Slavoj Zizek.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Concept and Form, Volume One
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume One: 'Theoretical Training', by Peter Hallward
- 1 Forewords to the Cahiers volumes 1-9
- 2 Jacques-Alain Miller, 'Action of the Structure'
- 3 Yves Duroux, 'Psychology and Logic'
- 4 Jacques-Alain Miller, 'Suture (Elements of the Logic of the Signifier)'
- 5 Serge Leclaire, 'The Analyst in His Place?'
- 6 Jean-Claude Milner, 'The Point of the Signifier'
- 7 François Regnault, 'Dialectic of Epistemologies'
- 8 The Cercle d'Épistémologie, 'Questions for Michel Foucault'
- 9 Alain Badiou, 'Mark and Lack'
- 10 Alain Badiou, 'Infinitesimal Subversion'
- 11 Alain Grosrichard, 'An Eighteenth-Century Psychological Experiment' (followed by Chevalier de Mérian, 'The History of Molyneux's Problem')
- 12 François Regnault, 'The Thought of the Prince'
- Appendix: The Cahiers pour l'Analyse, Tables of Contents
- Concept and Form, Volume Two
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume Two: 'The Fate of the Concept', by Knox Peden
- 1 François Regnault, 'Structure and Subject'
- 2 Patrice Maniglier, 'Acting Out the Structure'
- 3 Edward Baring, 'Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cahiers pour l'Analyse
- Or, How to Be a Good Structuralist'
- 4 Knox Peden, 'Foucault and the Subject of Method'
- 5 Tracy McNulty, 'Desuturing Desire: The Work of the Letter in the Miller-Leclaire Debate'
- 6 Adrian Johnston, 'Turning the Sciences Inside Out: Revisiting Lacan's "Science and Truth" '
- 7 Peter Hallward, 'Badiou and the Logic of Interruption'
- 8 Slavoj Zizek, ' "Suture", Forty Years Later'
- 9 'A Philosophical Conjuncture': An Interview with Étienne Balibar and Yves Duroux
- 10 'Strong Structuralism, Weak Subject': An Interview with Yves Duroux
- 11 'All of a Sudden, Psychoanalysis': An Interview with François Regnault
- 12 'The Chains of Reason': An Interview with Alain Grosrichard
- 13 'The Force of Minimalism': An Interview with Jean-Claude Milner
- 14 'To Get Rid of the Signified': An Interview with Jacques Bouveresse
- 15 'Only in the Form of Rupture': An Interview with Jacques Rancière
- 16 'Theory from Structure to Subject': An Interview with Alain Badiou
