Sam Gillespie was a philosopher

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 with a particular interest in the work of Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...

. Gillespie was described by Joan Copjec

Joan Copjec

Joan Copjec is a philosopher, theorist, author, feminist, and prominent American Lacanian psychoanalyst. She is the director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University of Buffalo. Major Publications:...

 as "one of the most gifted and promising philosophers of his generation". He was a co-founder of the academic journal Umbr(a) , a talented graphic designer and a committed activist. Gillespie's book The Mathematics of Novelty was published posthumously in 2008. Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward is a Canadian political philosopher, best known for his work on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. He has also published works on post-colonialism and contemporary Haiti...

 wrote that "This tremendously valuable book is a landmark in the critical reception of Badiou’s work."

After his death, The Mathematics of Novelty was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick

University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...

, 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.

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, go here~~> details on 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
  Justin Clemens
  Justin Clemens is an Australian philosopher, translator, social critic, and poet. He is primarily known today for his work on Alain Badiou as an editor, translator, and scholar writing, speaking, and lecturing on the impact of Badiou's thought in this contemporary juncture.A former instructor in...
  
  (Melbourne: re.press, 2006, 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.

External links

• Open Access version of The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics