• o Reproduction of a sketch bound in the pages of the periodical issue. On the left the artwork represents a human figure crouched down on the grass and looking at a smaller-size, nymph-like female figure standing on the right beside two daffodils (the titular Spirit of the Daffodil). Of the observer mainly his head and hands are visible and are painted in darker tones. Hues for the daffodil nymph are lighter and brighter.

Politics – An Extract from The Badiou Dictionary

The problem of how philosophy is to approach the word politics is especially difficult, as it is itself a stake of political struggle and thus steeped in equivocity. The question of just who is and who is not considered political, and what objects are part or are not part of political consideration, is itself always intrinsic to politics. Philosophy thus encounters the word politics as inherently equivocal or, in Badiou’s terms, as a ‘split word’.

Deleuze – An Extract from The Badiou Dictionary

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Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) is the contemporary philosopher to whom Badiou returns more than any other. His engagement with Deleuze is however neither homogeneous nor unequivocally critical, as it is often thought to be. In short, Deleuze figures in Badiou’s work as his preeminent philosophical disputant.