Politics of the One: Concepts of the One and the Many in Contemporary Thought

About the authors Introduction Part I The other One 1 More than One Jean-Luc Nancy 2 The fragility of the One Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback 3 Unity and solitude Artemy Magun Part II Event of the One 4 Genesis of the event in Deleuze: From the multiple to the general Keti Chukhrov 5 Truth and infinity in Badiou and Heidegger Alexey Chernyakov 6 Suspension of the One: Badiou's objective phenomenology and politics of the subject Vitaly Kosykhin 7 Unity in crisis: Protometaphysical and postmetaphysical decisions Jussi Backman Part III The Singular Plural 8 Vegetal democracy: The plant that is not One Michael Marder 9 Dividuum and condividuality Gerald Raunig Part IV Unity of the World 10 The One: Composition or event? For a politics of the becoming Boyan Manchev 11 Elemental nature as the ultimate common ground of the world community Susanna Lindberg Part V Politics of the One 12 Negative imperialization Artemy Magun 13 ... et unus non solus, sed in pluribus: A Citizen as Eikon Oleg Kharkhordin 14 Drawing lots in politics: The one, the few, and the many Yves Sintomer 15 More than two: The One as singularity in ambiguity Gerald Raunig Index of names Index

Artemy Magun is Professor of Democratic Theory, Chair of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European University at Saint-Petersburg. He also teaches at the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences (alias Smolny College) of the Saint-Petersburg State University. Artemy Magun received PhDs in political sciences from Michigan University (2003) and in philosophy from Strasbourg University (2004). He is author of many articles, of two books in Russian, one of which is also published in French. His book Negative Revolution is to appear in Continuum in 2013. A. Magun is member of the collective "Chto Delat" (Russia).