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100			_aBadiou, Alain
245			_aMalebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2
260			_bColumbia University Press, _aNew York : _c2019
300			_axxxvii, 193 p. ; _c21 cm
365			_b28.00 _cUSD _d86.50
490			_aSeminars of Alain Badiou
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aAlain Badiou is perhaps the world’s most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz.The seminar is at once a record of Badiou’s thought at a key moment in the years before the publication of his most important work, Being and Event, and a lively interrogation of Malebranche’s key text, the Treatise on Nature and Grace. Badiou develops a rigorous yet novel analysis of Malebranche’s theory of grace, retracing his claims regarding the nature of creation and the relation between God and world and between God and Jesus. Through Malebranche, Badiou develops a radical concept of truth and the subject. This book renders a seemingly obscure post-Cartesian philosopher fascinating and alive, restoring him to the philosophy canon. It occupies a pivotal place in Badiou’s reflections on the nature of being that demonstrates the crucial role of theology in his thinking.
650			_aThomism
650			_aPrevenient delectation
650			_aOntology
650			_aOccasional cause
650			_aNothingness
650			_aJansenist
650			_aGod’s desire
650			_aChristianity
650			_aCause of grace
650			_aBilliard bal
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