The theoretical writings of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou stand at the heart of contemporary European thought. While the combined corpus of these three figures contains a significant number of references to each other's work, such references are often simply critical, obscure or both. Lacan Deleuze Badiou guides us through these crucial, under-remarked interrelations, identifying the conceptual passages, connections and disjunctions that underlie the often superficial statements of critique, indifference or accord. Working through the rubrics of the contemporary, time, the event and truth, Bartlett, Clemens and Roffe present a new, lucid account of where these three thinkers stand in relation to one another and why their nexus remains unsurpassed as a point of reference for contemporary thought itself. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Contemporary 3. Time 4. Event 5. Truth 6. Polemos About the Authors: A. J. Bartlett is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy at Monash University. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (Edinburgh University Press) and translator, with Alex Ling, of Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury). Justin Clemens is Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Recent books include Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy (Edinburgh University Press). Jon Roffe is Mackenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. |