摘要：WORKING THROUGHOliver Feltham's recent translation of Alain Badiou's Being and Event, my evaluation vacillated. I alternated between the decision that Badiou's position was strikingly original and the assessment that I had heard this all somewhere before. but with quite a bit less math. However, to read Being and Event without a sense of déjà vu. perhaps especially to do so nearly twenty years after its original French publication. would be to fail to appreciate both its novelty and its potential importance. What is most immediately striking about Being and Event is the way it gathers up and tightly recapitulates (sometimes in advance of itself) fifty years of French philosophy. But while this feat is remarkable in itself, it threatens to obscure the more important question: is this a repetition that manages to produce something new. Does it produce a genuine philosophical difference. And, if so, on what basis. It is my thesis that, in order to read Being and Event correctly, we should read it as an effort to systematically re-inscribe postmodernity within a new conception of infinity for the sake of making theoretically legible a single precarious difference: truth
