What and how should individuals resist in political situations? Chris Henry brings together Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practice He develops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic, yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualities.

Introduction 1. Badiou: Being and Failure A question of dualities Being resistant Political ontology Presuppositions The truth of mathematics Who resists? Just Some-One The failure of being 2. Contra axiomatics: the persistence of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze An Althusserian conjuncture Which Althusser? Relative autonomy within unity Philosophical dualisms A very full void Time and persistence The subject as practice Non-dogmatic philosophy? 3. A time for practice Speculative or problematic? Meillassoux’s problem with Hume The way the world really works The hope of speculative resistance Ideas and the social formation Time and the syntheses of Ideas An ontology proper to structuralism Philosophy and idealism 4. Genius and ethology Deleuze, morality and ethics Ethical mediation The necessity of ethics Genius and the art of life The repetition of genius Mediated genius Conclusion: The art of practical resistance Bibliography