Abstract
Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: History and Event in Marxist Dialectics; 1. Hegel's Leaps and the Historicist Theory of Knowledge; 2. Marx's Idea of Communist Transformation; 3. Lenin's Philosophy: A New Dialectics of Revolution?; Part II: Events and Historical Judgement after Althusser; 4. Althusser's Science: Naming the Epistemological Break; 5. Badiou's Decision: To Give Up Leadership, Somewhat; 6. Meillassoux's Politics: Speculative Justice; Part III: Suggestions about Where this Road Might Take us; 7. Afterword: Towards a Complex Science of History; Notes; Bibliography; Index.