Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou vii
4. Author’s General Preface to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou xi
5. Introduction to the Seminar Images of the Present Time (Kenneth Reinhard) xxi
6. About the 2001–2004 Seminar xxxv
7. Year One: Contemporary Nihilism
8. Session 1 1
9. Session 2 24
10. Session 3 41
11. Session 4 59
12. Session 5 75
13. Session 6 95
14. Session 7 113
15. Year Two: The Logic of Exceptions
16. Session 1 133
17. Session 2 151
18. Session 3 169
19. Session 4 188
20. Session 5 206
21. Session 6 233
22. Session 7 256
23. Session 8 273
24. Year Three: What Does it Mean to Live?
25. Session 1 299
26. Session 2 321
27. Session 3 352
28. Session 4 376
29. Session 5 397
30. Notes 399
31. Index 411
32. List of the seminars (in chronological order) 431