Catholicism, ix, 147; of Claudel, xxxvi, xxxix, 140, 141–42; and Paul, xxii, 143
The Century (Badiou), xxxvi, xxxix, 135n9
Cephas (Incident), x, xiii, xl, xliii, xlix, 122n12, 134n5; vs. Avare, xli–xlii, 124n14; and language, xvii, xli, 124n9; name of, xv; and Paul, xi; and Paula, xlv, xlvi–xlviii
Châtelet, Madame du, 130n62
Christianity, l, li, 142, 145, 147; in Incident, xv, xxviii–xxx; vs. Jewish Law, xi, xxix–xxx, xlvi, xlvii, 122n7
the Church: Badiou on, 143–44, 147; and the Party, 142–43. See also Catholicism
The City (La Ville; Claudel), ix–x, xi, 134n1; characters in, 124n14; and Incident, xiii, xvi, xvii, xxii, xl, xli, xliii, xlv, xlvi, li, 140; plot of, xxxvii–xxxix; religion in, ix, xxxix, 142
Claudel, Camille, xliv, 129n62
Claudel, Paul, ix–x, xi, xxxi; Badiou on, 140–42, 143–44; and Incident, xiii, xvi, xvii, xxxvi–xl; language of, xxxvi, xxxix, 142; and Red Scarf, xxii, 140
Cœuvre (The City), xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xli, 134n1
Cohen, Paul, xxii, xxvii, xxxiii–xxxvi, xxxix, xl, li
communism, ix, 133n25, 145; in Incident, x, xi, xl, 127n36
The Communist Hypothesis (Badiou), 123n1
Communist parties, 130n62, 134n5, 135n11, 135n12
Constantine, Emperor, xxx
continuum hypothesis, xxxiii
Corneille, Pierre, 140
Council of Nicea (325 CE), xxx–xxxi, xlviii
Curie, Marie, 129n62
Damascus: in Incident, xv, xxviii, xxxi, xxxii, xl, xliii, xliv, xlv, xlix; Paul’s conversion on road to, xi, xv, xxviii, 124n5, 128n48
David (Incident), x–xi, xv, xlvi, xlviii–l, 125n20
democracy, x, xi, 124n8
Derrida, Jacques, 145
Dickinson, Emily, xliv Diderot, Denis, 140
Dmitrieff, Elisabeth, 129n62
Docetism, xxxi
En partage (film), viii
Engels, Friedrich, xiv, 128n53, 131n7, 134n4
Event, xxiii, xxxiii, xl, xlix, 125n20, 136n22; Badiou on, 146–47; site of, 135n16; theater as, xxv, xxvii
Ferdinand (The Story of Ferdinand; Leaf), 131n3
film, viii, xxvi
forcing, xxii, xxvii, xxxiii–xxxvi, xxxvii; in Incident, xl, xlix, l, li; of
the Messiah, xxxv, 122n8
formalization, xiii, xliv, 127n39, 128n53, 128nn49–50, 130n64, 147
Freud, Sigmund, 134n4
The Frogs (Aristophanes), ix
Germain, Sophie, 129n62
The German Ideology (Marx and Engels), xvii, xliv, 128n53
Germany: Revolution and Counter
Revolution (Marx and Engels), 131n7
Giraudoux, Jean, ix
Gödel, Kurt, xxxiii
Goethe, Johann Wofgang von, xiv, 131n66, 134n4
Gracq, Julien, 126n25
Hallward, Peter, 124n6, 135n9, 135n18
Hegel, G.W.F., 121n3, 125n18, 134n4, 135n13, 145; dialectics of, xxx, xxxi
Heidegger, Martin, 127n38, 134n4
Heraclitus, xiv, 133n30
Hervey, Sandor, xiv
horlieu (place outside of place), xxxi, xxxix, xliii–xliv, xlviii
Hypatia, xliv, 129n62
“In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (Auden), xxxix
The Incident at Antioch (L’Incident d’Antioche; Badiou): comedy in, xiv–xv; performances of, ix, xxvii, li, 121n1(Intro.), 137; plot of, xl–l; rediscovery of, viii–ix; revisions to, vii–viii, 137; structure of, xxviii–xxxii, 137–38
individualism, xxiv, 128n53, 129n56, 143
Jerusalem Conference (50 CE), xxix
Jiang Qing, 130n62
Joan of Arc, xliv
Judaism: and Christianity, xxix–xxx, 147; and forcing of the Messiah, xxxv, 122n8; Law of, xi, xxix–xxx, xlvi, xlvii, 122n7
Kafka, Franz, xxxvi
Kant, Immanuel, 132n14
Kleist, Heinrich von, ix
Kollontaï, Alexandra, 130n62
La Fayette, Madame de, 130n62
La Fontaine, Jean de, xiv, 134n8
La République de Platon (Badiou), 125n18
Labé, Louise, 130n62
Lacan, Jacques, xliii, xliv, 122n10, 123n13, 127n40, 131n4, 132nn19–20
Lâla (The City), ix, x, xxxvii–xl, xli, xliii, xlvi, li, 125n18
Lambert. See Besme, Lambert de
language, 128n50; of Cephas, xli, 124n9; of Claudel, xxxvi, xxxix, 142; and effect of strangeness, xiv–xv; of Incident, xi–xii, xiii–xvii, xxii; Marxist, vii, xiv
Lenin, V. I., 131n7, 134n5, 136n23
Litvak, Joseph, viii
Logics of Worlds (Badiou), 138
Lubetkin, Zivia, 130n62
Luxembourg, Rosa, xliv, 130n62
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 126n31, 133n28, 133n29
Mansfield, Catherine, 130n63
Mao Zedong, xxx, 134n5, 136n19
Marx, Karl, xiv, xxx, 128n53, 131n7, 145
Marxism, xxii, xlii, 137, 139
mathematics, xxxiii–xxxvi. See also Cohen, Paul
Maury brothers (Jean and Pierre; Incident), x, xiv, xvii, xl, xliii, xlvi
May 1968 demonstrations, xxii, xxviii, xxxvii, xl, li, 133n25, 138
The Meaning of Sarkozy (De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom?; Badiou), 127n36
Michel, Louise, 126n27, 129n62
Mitterrand, François, vii, 123n1, 132n13
Mokhtar (Incident), xlii, xlviii, l, 126n29, 127n35, 136n20; language of, xiv, xvii; name of, xv; and Paula, x, xlv, xlvi
Molière, ix, xxvi, 140, 141
Murasaki, Lady (Murasaki Shikibu), 130n62
music: in Incident, xvi–xvii; in The Red Scarf, vii, xvi
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 145
New Philosophers, xxii
Nicea, xv, xxviii; Council of, xxx–xxxi, xlviii
Nicene Creed, 134n1, 135n10
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 121n3, 134n4
nihilism, ix, x, xxxviii; Badiou on, 143, 144
Nœther, Emmy, 129n62
The Opposing Shore (Le Rivage des Syrtes; Gracq), 126n25
Paris Commune (1871), ix, xxxvii, xl, li, 127n35, 129n62. See also May 1968 demonstrations
Parmenides, xiv
the Party: Badiou on, 134n5, 139–40, 142–43; in Incident, x, xi, xliii, xlix, 134n5; in The Red Scarf, xxii. See also Communist parties
Paul, Saint, xxii, xxvii, xl, li, 122n7, 125n18; Badiou on, 143–44, 145–47; Caravaggio’s painting of, xliii, 127n41; conversion of, xi, xv, xxviii, 124n5, 128n48; in Incident, xxviii, xxix–xxx; on Jewish Law, xi, xxix–xxx, xlvi, xlvii, 122n7, 133n24; and Paula, xliii, xlvii, 144; and Peter, xi, xxix, xlvi, 122n7. See also Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
Paula (Incident), xxx, xxxvi, xli–l, 123n1, 125n20, 134n6; atheism of, 134n1; Badiou on, 138, 142, 143, 144–45; disappearance of, x, xlviii; on equality, 125n18, 125n21; and Lâla, x, xxxix, xli; and language, xvii; name of, xv; red scarf of, xlii, 125n17, 126n26, 126n27; return of, x–xi, xlviii–l; revelation of, xliii–xlv, 127n41; and revolutionaries, xi, xvii, xliv, xlv Peter (Cephas), xi, xxix, xlvi, 122n7, 123n2
Pintre, Madame (Incident), xiv, xlii, xliv, xlvi, xlviii
places, allegorical (lieux), xv, xxviii–xxix, xxx, 123n4. See also horlieu Place of Choices, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxii, xliii, xlvi
Place of Foundations, xxviii, xxix, xxxi, xxxii, xlviii, l
Place of Politics, Official, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxii, xl, 127n34
Place of the War Reserves, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxii, xlii, xlv, xlvi, 123n4
Place of Truths, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxii, xlii, xlvi
Plato, xxiv
politics: Badiou on, viii, xxi–xxii, 138, 139, 144–45, 147, 148–50; of Claudel, xxxix, 141; emancipatory, 124n6, 134n5; of equality, xlix–l, 123n1, 125n18, 133n23; factorybased, 132n8; and forcing, xxxiv–xxxv; French, 137, 138, 148–49; identity, 125n18; in Incident, x–xii, xl
viii; and mathematics, xxxiii–xxxvi; and revolution, xxx, 148–50; and the state, l, 148–49; and theater, xxi–xxii, xxv–xxvii; without power, xlii, 138, 144–45
Portulans (Badiou), xxi
positivism, ix
Pottecher, Maurice, xxxvi
The Pumpkins (Les Citrouilles; Badiou), viii, ix, xxi
Racine, Jean-Baptiste, xiv, 124n7, 126n24, 140
The Red Scarf (L’Écharpe rouge; Badiou), viii, xxi, xxii; and Incident, 126n27, 139; as romanopéra, vii, xvi; and The Satin Slipper, ix, 140
Reinhard, Ken, viii, ix, xix, 123, 127n40, 128n51
religion, xi, xiv, 141; in The City, ix, xxxix, 142; and Paula, 142, 143. See also Catholicism; Christianity; Judaism
revolution, 125n17, 127n35; Badiou on, 133n25, 139, 142, 148–50; and the Church, 140; failures of, 123n1; vs. Law, xi, xlv, 124n15; and politics, xxx, 148–50; and the State, xi, xxxi, xlv, xlvi, xlviii, xlix, 134n5. See also May 1968 demonstrations; Paris Commune
“Rhapsody for the Theatre” (Badiou), xxiv, xxv–xxvi, 147
Richard III (Shakespeare), 131n4
romanopéra (novelopera), vii, xvi
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 140
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Badiou), xiii, xxiii, xxix, xxxv, li, 128n48, 137, 144
Sappho, xliv, 129n62
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 135n12, 140
The Satin Slipper (Le Soulier de satin; Claudel), ix, xxii, 139, 140
Schiaretti, Christian, viii
Seghers, Anna, 130n62
set theory, xxxiii–xxxiv
Shakespeare, William, xiv
socialism, ix, 123n1, 132n13
Socrates, xliii, 125n18
Spitzer, Susan, viii, xii, xxi, xlv, 122n12, 137–42
Stalin, Josef, 132n11
the State: Badiou on, 143, 144, 145; and politics, l, 148–49; and revolution, xi, xxxi, xlv, xlvi, xlviii, xlix, 134n5; and theater, xxv–xxvi
subjectivity, xxiii, xxiv; Badiou on, 139, 141, 142, 145; becoming-Subject, xiii, 142
Taylor, Mark C., 145
temporality, xxxi, 122n7, 133n27; and theater, xxiv, xxvi–xxvii
Teresa of Avila, Saint, 130n62
theater: Badiou on, xxiii–xxiv, xxv–xxvi, xxvii, 140–41; as experiment, xxiv, xxvii; and philosophy, xxiii–xxviii; and politics, xxi–xxii, xxv–xxvii; tragic, xxv
“Théâtre et philosophie” (Badiou), xxiii–xxiv, xxvi, xxvii
Theodora of Byzantium, 130n62
Théorie de la contradiction (Badiou), xxviii
Theory of the Subject (Badiou), xxiii, xxx, xxxi, xxxiv, xliv, li, 122n7, 137, 138
Treml, Martin, ix
The Tricks of Scapin (Les Fourberies de Scapin; Molière), ix, 141
truth: vs. knowledge, xxiii, xxiv–xxv; theatrical, xxiii–xxiv, xxvii
truth-event, xlix, 146
truth procedures/process, xxv, xxvi, 125n18, 126n21, 132n21, 147
universalism, xxiii, xxxv, 123n1, 143, 146. See also St. Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
Villembray, Claude (Incident), x, xl–xlv, l, 132n12; and language, xvii; and Maurys, xliii, xlvi; murder of, x, xlviii; and Paula, xliii, xlvi
Vitez, Antoine, vii, viii, xxvii, 137
Voltaire, 140
the wager, xxiv, xxxv, 125n20, 133n28
Wagner, Richard, 122n11
Weigel, Sigrid, ix
women, xliv, 123n13; Badiou on, 125n18, 144–45; equality of, 125n18, 125n21
Woolf, Virginia, 130n63
workers, xlii–xliii, 126n30; Badiou on, 135n18, 148, 149; and the Church, 140; immigrant, xxxiv, xl, 148, 149
Zassulitch, Vera, 130n62
Zenobia, 130n62
INDEX
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Aeschylus, xxv
Ahmed Gets Angry (Ahmed se fâche; Badiou), viii, xxi
Ahmed the Philosopher (Ahmed philosophe; Badiou), viii, ix, xxi, 134n4
Ahmed the Subtle (Ahmed le subtil; Badiou), vii, viii, ix, xxi. See also The Pumpkins
Almagestes (Badiou), xxi
Amphitryon (Plautus), ix
Antigone, xliii
Antioch, xv, xxviii, 132n18; incident at, xi, xxix, xlvi, 123n1
Aperghis, George, vii
Arianism, xxxi
Aristophanes, ix
Arnim, Bettina von, 130n62
atheism, xi, xxxix, 128n52, 134n1, 143
Athena, 128n46, 130n65
Auden, W. H., xxxix
Avare (The City), xxxvii–xxxviii, xli–xlii, 124n14
banlieues (poor suburbs), xiv, xv, xl, xlii, 123n3, 148
Barnes, Djuna, 130n62
Being and Event (Badiou), xxxiv, li, 123n13, 138
Benjamin, Walter, xxvii, xxxvi, 122n9
Bérénice (play; Racine), 124n7
Besme, Isidore de, xxxvii, xli
Besme, Lambert de (The City), xxxvii–xxxviii, xli, xliii, xlvi
Bible, xiv, 124n9; Corinthians, xxx, 121n2(Intro.), 133n24; “incident at Antioch” in, xxix, xlvi, 123n1
Blanton, Ward, ix, 142–50
Boyer, Élisabeth, viii
Break of Noon (Partage de midi; Claudel), xxxi, 121n3
Brecht, Bertolt, xxxvi
Britannicus (play; Racine), 126n24
Calme bloc ici-bas (Badiou), xxi
Camille (Incident), xiv, 126n27
Cantor, Georg, xxxiii
Caravaggio, Michelangelo da, xliii, 127n41
Catherine the Second (Catherine the Great), 130n62
Catholicism, ix, 147; of Claudel, xxxvi, xxxix, 140, 141–42; and Paul, xxii, 143
The Century (Badiou), xxxvi, xxxix, 135n9
Cephas (Incident), x, xiii, xl, xliii, xlix, 122n12, 134n5; vs. Avare, xli–xlii, 124n14; and language, xvii, xli, 124n9; name of, xv; and Paul, xi; and Paula, xlv, xlvi–xlviii
Châtelet, Madame du, 130n62
Christianity, l, li, 142, 145, 147; in Incident, xv, xxviii–xxx; vs. Jewish Law, xi, xxix–xxx, xlvi, xlvii, 122n7
the Church: Badiou on, 143–44, 147; and the Party, 142–43. See also Catholicism
The City (La Ville; Claudel), ix–x, xi, 134n1; characters in, 124n14; and Incident, xiii, xvi, xvii, xxii, xl, xli, xliii, xlv, xlvi, li, 140; plot of, xxxvii–xxxix; religion in, ix, xxxix, 142
Claudel, Camille, xliv, 129n62
Claudel, Paul, ix–x, xi, xxxi; Badiou on, 140–42, 143–44; and Incident, xiii, xvi, xvii, xxxvi–xl; language of, xxxvi, xxxix, 142; and Red Scarf, xxii, 140
Cœuvre (The City), xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xli, 134n1
Cohen, Paul, xxii, xxvii, xxxiii–xxxvi, xxxix, xl, li
communism, ix, 133n25, 145; in Incident, x, xi, xl, 127n36
The Communist Hypothesis (Badiou), 123n1
Communist parties, 130n62, 134n5, 135n11, 135n12
Constantine, Emperor, xxx
continuum hypothesis, xxxiii
Corneille, Pierre, 140
Council of Nicea (325 CE), xxx–xxxi, xlviii
Curie, Marie, 129n62
Damascus: in Incident, xv, xxviii, xxxi, xxxii, xl, xliii, xliv, xlv, xlix; Paul’s conversion on road to, xi, xv, xxviii, 124n5, 128n48
David (Incident), x–xi, xv, xlvi, xlviii–l, 125n20
democracy, x, xi, 124n8
Derrida, Jacques, 145
Dickinson, Emily, xliv Diderot, Denis, 140
Dmitrieff, Elisabeth, 129n62
Docetism, xxxi
En partage (film), viii
Engels, Friedrich, xiv, 128n53, 131n7, 134n4
Event, xxiii, xxxiii, xl, xlix, 125n20, 136n22; Badiou on, 146–47; site of, 135n16; theater as, xxv, xxvii
Ferdinand (The Story of Ferdinand; Leaf), 131n3
film, viii, xxvi
forcing, xxii, xxvii, xxxiii–xxxvi, xxxvii; in Incident, xl, xlix, l, li; of
the Messiah, xxxv, 122n8
formalization, xiii, xliv, 127n39, 128n53, 128nn49–50, 130n64, 147
Freud
, Sigmund, 134n4
The Frogs (Aristophanes), ix
Germain, Sophie, 129n62
The German Ideology (Marx and Engels), xvii, xliv, 128n53
Germany: Revolution and Counter
Revolution (Marx and Engels), 131n7
Giraudoux, Jean, ix
Gödel, Kurt, xxxiii
Goethe, Johann Wofgang von, xiv, 131n66, 134n4
Gracq, Julien, 126n25
Hallward, Peter, 124n6, 135n9, 135n18
Hegel, G.W.F., 121n3, 125n18, 134n4, 135n13, 145; dialectics of, xxx, xxxi
Heidegger, Martin, 127n38, 134n4
Heraclitus, xiv, 133n30
Hervey, Sandor, xiv
horlieu (place outside of place), xxxi, xxxix, xliii–xliv, xlviii
Hypatia, xliv, 129n62
“In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (Auden), xxxix
The Incident at Antioch (L’Incident d’Antioche; Badiou): comedy in, xiv–xv; performances of, ix, xxvii, li, 121n1(Intro.), 137; plot of, xl–l; rediscovery of, viii–ix; revisions to, vii–viii, 137; structure of, xxviii–xxxii, 137–38
individualism, xxiv, 128n53, 129n56, 143
Jerusalem Conference (50 CE), xxix
Jiang Qing, 130n62
Joan of Arc, xliv
Judaism: and Christianity, xxix–xxx, 147; and forcing of the Messiah, xxxv, 122n8; Law of, xi, xxix–xxx, xlvi, xlvii, 122n7
Kafka, Franz, xxxvi
Kant, Immanuel, 132n14
Kleist, Heinrich von, ix
Kollontaï, Alexandra, 130n62
La Fayette, Madame de, 130n62
La Fontaine, Jean de, xiv, 134n8
La République de Platon (Badiou), 125n18
Labé, Louise, 130n62
Lacan, Jacques, xliii, xliv, 122n10, 123n13, 127n40, 131n4, 132nn19–20
Lâla (The City), ix, x, xxxvii–xl, xli, xliii, xlvi, li, 125n18
Lambert. See Besme, Lambert de
language, 128n50; of Cephas, xli, 124n9; of Claudel, xxxvi, xxxix, 142; and effect of strangeness, xiv–xv; of Incident, xi–xii, xiii–xvii, xxii; Marxist, vii, xiv
Law, ix, xli; Jewish, xi, xxix–xxx, xlvi, xlvii, 122n7; and revolution, xi, xlv, 124n15; splitting, xliii, xlvii
Lenin, V. I., 131n7, 134n5, 136n23
Litvak, Joseph, viii
Logics of Worlds (Badiou), 138
Lubetkin, Zivia, 130n62
Luxembourg, Rosa, xliv, 130n62
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 126n31, 133n28, 133n29