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Being and Event by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou's p ...Show more
Cinema by Alain Badiou
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Category: Film Theatre | Reading Level: very good
For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other ...Show more
Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents, gathered here for their first-ever debate, have irreconcilable visions. Yet neither is a stranger to contro ...Show more
Five Lessons on Wagner by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and keen Wagner enthusiast, offers a detailed reading ...Show more
Greece and the Reinvention of Politics: On Greece by Alain Badiou
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Category: History
One of the world's leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreeceIn a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterranean country "a sort of open-air political lesson", wit ...Show more
Handbook of Inaesthetics by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it underwent the saturation of these t ...Show more
Philosophy for Militants by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pocket Communism
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 ...Show more
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In Pocket Pantheon Alain Badiou, one of today's leading political and philosophical minds, invites readers to engage with some of the great thinkers of the postwar Western tradition such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault. Drawing on his own encounters with this pantheon - his teachers, opponents and allies ...Show more
Pornographic Age (The) by Alain Badiou; Adam Bartlett (Translator); Justin Clemens (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
With The Pornographic Age, Alain Badiou offers a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become. This short, critical work, is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems which characterize it. Badiou argues that any true radical politics must begin with dismantling the ...Show more
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pocket Communism
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities. Alain Badiou' ...Show more
The End - A Conversation by Alain Badiou; Giovanbattista Tusa; Robin MacKay (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The notion of 'the end' has long occupied philosophical thought. In light of the horrors of the twentieth century, some writers have gone so far as to declare the end of philosophy itself, emphasizing the impossibility of thinking after Auschwitz. In this book the distinguished philosopher Alain Badiou ...Show more
The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III by Alain Badiou
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga- Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths, which he has been working on for 15 years. ...Show more