Rebirth of History - Times of Riots and Uprisings

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 “Scarcely any other moral thinker of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical! so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda.”—Terry Eagleton “Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.”— Times Higher Education Supplement 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 . Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England? . Klappentext A renowned philosopher presents an inspiring analysis of the Arab revolts and the European response. Zusammenfassung Testing the winds of history blowing from the Arab revolts.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou, Gregory Elliott
• Assisted by: Gregory Elliott (Translation), Elliott Gregory (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9781844678792
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-879-2
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions