Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the
century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of
empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic
realism everywhere replaced by abstraction. It is not Badiou's wish to
plead for an accused that is perfectly capable of defending itself
without the authors aid. Nor does he seek to proclaim, like Frantz,
the hero of Sartre's Prisoners of Altona, 'I have taken the century on
my shoulders and I have said: I will answer for it!' The Century
simply aims to examine what this accursed century, from within its own
unfolding, said that it was. Badiou's proposal is to reopen the
dossier on the century - not from the angle of those wise and sated
judges we too often claim to be, but from the standpoint of the
century itself.
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9781509534050
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2018
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