Metapolitics

Zusatztext “A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj ?i?ek “An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”— New Statesman “One of the most important philosophers writing today.”—Joan Copjec Informationen zum Autor Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the E?cole normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject , Being and Event , Manifesto for Philosophy , and Gilles Deleuze . His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy , Ethics , Metapolitics , Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis , Five Lessons on Wagner , and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy . Klappentext 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 affirmation of equality. He demands that the question of a possible "political truth" be separated from any notion of consensus or public opinion, and that political action be rethought in terms of the complex process that binds discussion to decision. Starting from this analysis, Badiou critically examines the thought of anthropologist and political theorist Sylvain Lazarus, Jacques Ranciere's writings on workers' history and democratic dissensus, the role of the subject in Althusser, as well as the concept of democracy and the link between truth and justice. -- Pubisher description. Zusammenfassung Acclaimed French philosopher on metaphysics and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou, Badiou Alain
• Assisted by: Jason Barker (Translation), Barker Jason (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2012
• EAN: 9781844677818
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-781-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 06
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory