The Essence of Christianity

Concepts of Space: The History of Theories of Space

Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists

Phänomenologie des Geistes

The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy

Is it becoming more obvious today that the thinkers of the post-Hegelian era were/are not ‘able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit’? Is our era the era of the ‘faint-hearted’ philosophy? Celebrating 200 years since the publication of The Phenomenology of Spirit this volume addresses these questions through a renewed encounter with Hegel’s thought.

The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking

Following the publication of his magnum opus L’etre et l’evenement (Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed as one of France’s greatest living philosophers. Since then, he has released a dozen books, including Manifesto for Philosophy, Conditions, Metapolitics and Logiques des mondes (Logics of Worlds), many of which are now available in English translation. Badiou writes on an extraordinary array of topics, and his work has already had an impact upon studies in the history of philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, political philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and ontology. This volume takes up the challenge of explicating, extending and, in many places, criticising Badiou’s stunningly original theses. Above all, the essays collected here put Badiou’s concepts to the test in a confrontation with the four great headings that he himself has identified as essential to our humanity: science, love, art and politics. Many of the contributors have already been recognised as outstanding translators of and commentators on Badiou’s work; they appear here with fresh voices also destined to make a mark.

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The Praxis of Alain Badiou

Conference Report: The Future of Critical Theory, Ashworth Program in Social Theory, University of Melbourne, 17-18 November 2005.

Recollecting the Future (The Future of Critical Theory)

Masters and Disciples

This first edition of Cosmos and History fulfils the intention of its editors to provide a forum for philosophically oriented thinkers from all disciplines to grapple with the broader questions of who we are, what is society, what is life and what is the nature of the cosmos, and to show the implications of such questions for how we set about creating the future. The very diversity of the papers in this edition should signify to potential contributors the existence of a journal that does not accept the normal disciplinary boundaries, boundaries which are increasingly closing off channels of inquiry, insulating prevailing assumptions from questioning and leaving those who dare to cross these boundaries without an audience and without a place to publish. At the same time this ambition has exposed the editors to some problems. The most important is getting referees for papers. The effect of dividing up research in academia between one thousand five hundred disciplines and sub-disciplines is that it is difficult to find scholars to judge the work that does transcend these divisions. For this reason some excellent papers submitted for the first edition will have to be published in the second edition. As part of this project we will also be accepting a limited number of articles that appear in languages other than English, provided we can secure appropriate reviewers. At this stage, it is difficult to identify any unifying theme in the papers published, although we believe that a careful reading of them indicates an underlying commonality of interest. There is a common appreciation of the need to develop radically new ways of thinking. As the journal evolves and people respond to those papers that have been published, however, we believe themes will emerge. We hope these themes will open new horizons and embolden contributors to relate such fundamental thinking to major ethical, political and social conflicts. That is, the journal will overcome the strange view that ethical and political disputes can be understood without considering fundamental conceptions about the place of humanity in the cosmos and the dynamics of history. It is our conviction that there is an intimate relationship between fundamental philosophical issues, science and social praxis, and that it is when these relations are appreciated that intellectual inquiry, empirical research and political praxis are at their most vigorous and creative. This is illustrated by periods of great intellectual achievement, as in Ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, and late eighteenth and early

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Paul Ashton

Papers

The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking

The Praxis of Alain Badiou

Recollecting the Future (The Future of Critical Theory)

Masters and Disciples

Editorial Introduction to the First Edition of Cosmos and History