Articles by Peter Hallward

• Order and Event
  • Peter Hallward

  in NLR 53, September-October 2008, pp. 97-122
  Subjects: Philosophy
  

  Peter Hallward assesses Logiques des mondes, the latest major work by Alain Badiou, within the context of his wider concerns with truth and subjective being. Set theory and ontology brought to bear on abstract questions of appearance, relation, fidelity and historical change.

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• Staging Equality
  • Peter Hallward

  in NLR 37, January-February 2006, pp. 109-129
  Subjects: Philosophy
  

  The ‘theatrocracy’—sovereignty of the audience—condemned in Plato’s Laws is reinstalled as a radical principle of egalitarian politics in Jacques Rancière’s work. Peter Hallward examines the implications and limitations of his approach. Is today’s post-political order vulnerable to theatrocratic attack?

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• Option Zero in Haiti
  • Peter Hallward

  in NLR 27, May-June 2004, pp. 23-47
  Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , Haiti
  

  A very multilateral coup. Franco-American harmony and unanimous blessings from the Security Council for the overthrow of a constitutional government and crushing of popular hope, in the Western hemisphere’s poorest nation-state.

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• Mystifications of Paris
  • Peter Hallward

  in NLR 11, September-October 2001, pp. 138-146
  Subjects: France , Philosophy
  

  Peter Hallward on Dominique Lecourt, The Mediocracy: French Philosophy since the mid-1970s. Doleful tales of the ‘New Philosophers’ in France, and better news beyond them.

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