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“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj ?i?ek “A Little Red Book for our time?”— Platypus “An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”—Lucy Wadham, New Statesman “Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.”— Times Higher Education Supplement “One of the saddest, funniest books of the past 20 years.”—John Kappes, Cleveland Plain Dealer From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École 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 We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities. Alain Badiou's formulation of the communist hypothesis has travelled around the world since it was first aired in early 2008, in his book, "The Meaning of Sarkozy". The hypothesis is partly a demand to reconceptualize communism after the twin deaths of the Soviet Union and neoliberalism, but also a fresh demand for universal emancipation. As third way reforms prove as empty in practice as in theory, Badiou's manifesto is a galvanizing call to arms that needs to be reckoned with by anyone concerned with the future of our planet.We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy. This title presents a hypothesis that is partly a demand to reconceptualize communism after the twin deaths of the Soviet Union and neoliberalism, and also a demand for universal emancipation....
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Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École 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.
