Sam Gillespie
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
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
- ‘Slavoj Your Symptom!’, UMBR(a), no. 1, 1995, pp. 115–9.
- ‘Subtractive’, UMBR(a), no. 1, 1996, pp. 7–10, (available from CSeARCH).
- ‘Hegel Unsutured (an Addendum to Badiou)’, UMBR(a), no. 1, 1996, pp. 57–69 (available from CSeARCH).
- ‘Badiou’s Ethics: A Review’, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, no. 12, 2001, pp. 256–65.
- ‘Neighborhood of Infinity: On Badiou’s Deleuze: The Clamor of Being’, UMBR(a), no. 1, 2001, pp. 91–106 (available from CSeARCH).
- ‘Placing the Void – Badiou on Spinoza’, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol. 6, no. 3, 2001, pp. 63–77.
- ‘Beyond Being: Badiou’s Doctrine of Truth’, Communication and Cognition, vol. 36, no. 1-2, 2003, pp. 5–30 (available from CSeARCH).
- ‘Get Your Lack On’, UMBR(a), no. 1, 2004, pp. 9–19.
- 'Giving Form to Its Own Existence: Anxiety and the Subject of Truth', Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 1: The Praxis of Alain Badiou, 2006, pp. 161–18 (reprinted in The Praxis of Alain Badiou, ed. Paul Ashton, A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens (Melbourne: re.press, 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20110411133810/http://www.re-press.org/content/view/21/38/)
- 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
- ISBN 978-0-8264-9470-2.
- ^ Umbr(a) (2004)
- ^ "UMBR(a): A Journal of the Unconscious". www.gsa.buffalo.edu. Archived from the original on 26 October 2005. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/118/46
- ^ re.press - The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou’s Minimalist Metaphysics Archived 2008-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "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.
External links
- Open Access version of The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics