Philosophy for Militants

A philosophical handbook for activists, from the author of "Communist Hypothesis". Provides a philosophical grounding for radical students, the young, workers and immigrants. 'A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!' Slavoj Zizek

About the author

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.Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of Badiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America, and The Actuality of Communism. He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: Theory of the Subject, Can Politics Be Thought? and What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan. He currently serves as the General Editor of Diacritics.

Summary

Badiou's most accessible book and essential reading for militants everywhere

Additional text

"One of the most important philosophers writing today." -Joan Copjec

"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!" -Slavoj iek

"An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser." -New Statesman

From the Hardcover edition.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels
• Assisted by: Bruno Bosteels (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.05.2015, delayed
• EAN: 9781781688694
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-869-4
• No. of pages: 122
• Series: Pocket Communism; Pocket Communism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education