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 Pub Group
Keywords: event, worlds, logics
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0826494706
ISBN-13: 9780826494702

Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou’s much heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Fifteen years after Badiou’s groundbreaking work first appeared in French, the greatest and most influential contemporary French philosopher finally presents his readers with a truly remarkable follow-up, answering many of the questions posed by his critics and continuing the development of his fascinating theories of truth, subject and event. Appearing in French for the first time in 2006, this hugely important new book is set to make a significant and controversial contributi

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: 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

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: University of Minnesota Press
Keywords: clamor, deleuze
Number of Pages: 143
Published: 1999-12-07
List price: $58.50
ISBN-10: 0816631395
ISBN-13: 9780816631391

Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: war, evil, understanding, essay, ethics
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1859844359
ISBN-13: 9781859844359