In this seminar, Badiou sets out to address fundamental questions that concern any engagement with Nietzsche and his legacy: In what sense is he a philosopher? In what sense might we or our century be called Nietzschean? And how might engagement with Nietzsche and his most incisive readers clarify the wider relation between philosophy and art? These questions are filtered through the literally decisive question of value. This puts Badiou and Nietzsche on a fascinating collision course, as regards the value of truth, of affirmation, and of philosophy itself. -- Peter Hallward, author of Badiou: A Subject to Truth This book supplies a completely novel interpretation of the importance of Nietzsches philosophy for the contemporary world. In Badiou's examination of his late writings, Nietzsche ceases to be just a worthy antagonist for Badious thought and becomes instead a valuable ally in his philosophical project. What emerges here is a breathtaking exploration of Nietzsche that departs from all the received wisdom. -- Todd McGowan, author of Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity In this remarkable seminar, the Prince of philosophy turns his attention to the Prince of anti-philosophy. Badious reading of the final Nietzsche is at once rigorous and enchanting: he traces how Nietzsche configures event, act, and artonly to push this configuration to the point of detonation. That detonation, in turn, illuminates another configuration: that of Badious own philosophy. Within it, the anti-philosophersSaint Paul, Wittgenstein, Lacan, and of course Nietzscheoccupy a privileged place: not as adversaries, but as sites where the relation between philosophy and its conditionspolitics, science, love, and artappears in a strikingly illuminating way. -- Alenka Zupani, author of The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two
