Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Society, Economy and Culture in Transition

By: Professor Michael Hauser

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Hardcover | 11 December 2025

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Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of but departing from those two towering modes of late 20th-century culture. Seen in this light, the preoccupation of populism, identity politics, hybrid wars and other contemporary phenomena can be seen as the result of the disintegration of neoliberal agendas and postmodernist sensibilities.

Drawing together a vast range of thinkers and theoretical models, from Gramsci to Jameson, Hauser traces the reasons for the decline and demise of the grand narratives of the twentieth century and the ideologies that replaced them. His explanation of the foundational âepicycloidâ and disintegrative âellipticalâ stages of political movements then lays the ground for a deep engagement with Alain Badiou, understanding his âtransitory ontologyâ as a philosophical response to our interregnum. By expanding and unpicking Badiouâs thoughts on mathematics, politics, art, love, and the conditions of doing philosophy, we can imagine a point beyond the present moment in history.

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