Product details
ISBN
9781844679867
Published
2012-11-08
Publisher
Verso Books
Weight
163 gr
Height
165 mm
Width
116 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
122
Author
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Biographical note
ALAIN BADIOU teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosophie in Paris. His recent books include Ethics; Metapolitics; Polemics; The Communist Hypothesis; Five Lessons on Wagner; and Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy."One of the most important philosophers writing today." Joan Copjec "An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser." New Statesman "A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!" Slavoj Zizek
This concise, accessible volume captures the relationship between politics and philosophy as it is conceived in Alain Badiou's work. Harking back to his mentor Louis Althusser, Badiou explains how politics conditions philosophy, while suggesting that philosophy itself may be needed to clarify the truths produced within the political condition. Badiou also offers an intriguing take on what he calls the four major "ensembles" of French and, more broadly, Western society today, in which new emancipatory forms of politics are emerging: students, the young, workers and immigrants. Badiou concludes with a return to the notion of communism, here defined as an answer to the obscure knot that ties politics, philosophy and democracy.
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Badiou's most accessible book and essential reading for militants everywhere
Product details
ISBN
9781844679867
Published
2012-11-08
Publisher
Verso Books
Weight
163 gr
Height
165 mm
Width
116 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
122
Author
Translated by