Sam Gillespie

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I am thinking of Sam Gillespie, who came from the United States to join my other friends in England, a particularly acute and occasionally mordant analyst (see The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou’s Minimalist Metaphysics), whose intense work was interrupted by his death.

Alain Badiou from Logics of Worlds[1]

Sam Gillespie (1 September 1970 – 8 August 2003) was a

postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Gillespie was described by Joan Copjec as "one of the most gifted and promising philosophers of his generation".[2] He was a co-founder of the academic journal Umbr(a).[3][4] Gillespie's book The Mathematics of Novelty was published posthumously in 2008. Peter Hallward wrote that "This tremendously valuable book is a landmark in the critical reception of Badiou’s work."[5]

After his death by suicide at age 33, The Mathematics of Novelty was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, which Gillespie was posthumously awarded in 2005. Into the first decade of the 21st century, it is now recognized that Gillespie's writings and translations were crucial to the initial reception of Alain Badiou's work in the English-speaking world.[6]

Selected bibliography

Books
  • The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics (Melbourne: re.press, 2008). For access to the complete version of this title in
    pdf format, visit the re.press website
    .
Journal publications
Translations
  • Badiou, Alain, "Hegel", trans. Marcus Coelen and Sam Gillespie, UMBR(a), no. 1, 1996, pp. 27–35.
  • Badiou, Alain, "On a Contemporary Usage of Frege", trans. Justin Clemens and Sam Gillespie, UMBR(a), no. 1, 2000, pp. 99–115.

References

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  2. ^ Umbr(a) (2004)
  3. ^ "UMBR(a): A Journal of the Unconscious". www.gsa.buffalo.edu. Archived from the original on 26 October 2005. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  4. ^ http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/118/46
  5. ^ re.press - The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou’s Minimalist Metaphysics Archived 2008-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Introduction to Sam Gillespie". Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol 2, No 1-2. Open Humanities Press. 2006. Retrieved 28 November 2010.

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