Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary
philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offers an in-depth look at their
respective views. Using Louis Althusser's materialism as a starting point—which, as Pfeifer
shows, was built partially as a response to the Marxism of the Parti Communiste Français
and partially in dialogue with other philosophical movements and intellectual currents of its
times—the book looks at the differing ways in which both Badiou's and Žižek's work attempt …