Authors:Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier, Alberto Toscano,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: continuum, impacts, badiou, alain, writings, theoretical
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2006-08-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0826493246
ISBN-13: 9780826493248

Alain Badiou is arguable the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou’s work revitalizes philosophy’s perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. This volume presents for the first time in English a comprehensive overview of Badiou’s ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou’s controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between a subject and an event. Also included is a substant

Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: event
Number of Pages: 526
Published: 2007-07-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 082649529X
ISBN-13: 9780826495297

"Being and Event" is the centrepiece of Alain Badiou’s oeuvre; it is the work that grounds his reputation as one of France’s most original philosophers. Long-awaited in translation, "Being and Event" makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou’s groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. This book makes the scope and aim of Badiou’s whole philosophical project clear, enabling full comprehension of Badiou’s significance for contemporary philosophy. In "Being and Event", Badiou anchors this project by recasting the Euro

Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: metapolitics
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 2006-09-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 184467567X
ISBN-13: 9781844675678

In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed volume Ethics, a searing critique of liberalism, Alain Badiou discusses the limits of political philosophy. Metapolitics argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection. Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in terms of the production of truth and the af

Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: century
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-04-23
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0745636322
ISBN-13: 9780745636320

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

Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: metapolitics
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 2005-10-17
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 184467035X
ISBN-13: 9781844670352

In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed volume Ethics, a searing critique of liberalism, Alain Badiou discusses the limits of political philosophy. In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed volume Ethics, a searing critique of liberalism, Alain Badiou discusses the limits of political philosophy. Metapolitics argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection. Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipato

Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: hypothesis, communist
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1844676005
ISBN-13: 9781844676002

A new program for the Left after the death of neoliberalism. “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 Alain Badiou’s formulation of the “communist hypothesis” has traveled around the world since it was first aired in early 2008, in his book The Meaning of Sarkozy. The hypothesis is partly a demand to reconceptu

Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: subject, theory
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0826496733
ISBN-13: 9780826496737

Badiou is widely considered to be France’s most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou’s earlier work (including "Being and Event") can only be fully understood with a clear grasp of "Theory of the Subject", one of his most important works."Theory of the Subject", first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou’s most important works, laying many of the foundations for his magnum opus, "Being and Event". Here Badiou seeks to provide a theory of the subject for Marxism through a study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, offering a major con