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
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, xlviii; 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
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
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