In Praise Of Love

Informationen zum Autor Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou is a leading French philosopher. With Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek, he has reclaimed for the radical left the concepts of being, truth and the subject. A lifelong communist, he is the author of The Meaning of Sarkozy, Being and Event, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil and The Communist Hypothesis . Writer and journalist Nicolas Truong is a regular contributor to the French daily, Le Monde . Klappentext The French philosopher Badiou turns his attention to love in this new book. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for reinvention. 'One of the most important philosophers writing today.' Joan Copjec French philosopher Alain Badiou turns his attention to love Zusammenfassung The author takes on contemporary 'dating agency' conceptions of love that come complete with zero-risk insurance. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for re-invention, in a constant exploration of otherness and difference that leads the individual out of an obsession with identity and self.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9781846687792
• ISBN: 978-1-84668-779-2
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 176 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Serpent's Tale
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions