Alain Badiou

A Critical Introduction

by: Jason Barker

Author: Jason Barker

Publisher: Pluto Press

Series: Modern European Thinkers

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 07 December 2001

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ISBN: 0745318010 ISBN 13: 9780745318011

Alain Badiou by Jason Barker

Alain Badiou is emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time. This work provides an overview of Badiou's work and the intellectual and political context from which it emerges. Top page

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Alain Badiou is emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time. He opposes the contemporary reduction of philosophy to nothing but a matter of language and premature announcements of the end of philosophy and thus sets himself against both analytic and continental modes of philosophy. Setting the traditional platonic concerns of philosophy, truth and being, against the modern sophists of postmodernism, Badiou has articulated a powerful systematic philosophy with profound ethical and political consequences. This work provides an overview of Badiou's work and the intellectual and political context from which it emerges. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Pluto Press

City: London

Pages: 172

More info: height 215 mm width 135 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 194 Library of Congress Subject: Political science

Summary Alain Badiou Abbreviations Introduction 1. Maoist Beginnings 2. The Science of Being 3. The Event of Non-Being 4. The Politics of Truth 5. The Cult of Deleuze 6. The Ethics of Philosophy Appendix Notes and References Bibliography Index Top page

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