Tom Betteridge is a London-based independent researcher and poet, UK. He completed his PhD at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.
In this book, Tom Betteridge takes up a set of questions central to the work of Alain Badiou - what is a poem? what does poetry do? what is the relation between philosophy and poetry? -- in order to give the most detailed, attentive and productive account to date. * Justin Clemens, Associate Professor in Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne, Australia * Tom Betteridge's reading of Badiou's two key modern literary-philosophical triangulations - with Heidegger and Celan, and with Beckett and Adorno - brings new insight to Badiou's philosophy and his insistence that philosophy resist the temptation to suture itself to its poetic condition. Betteridge's explication of the philosophical and poetic texts and issues involved is strong, clear, and nuanced. * Kenneth Reinhard, Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA, USA *