Can Politics Be Thought?

Alain Badiou is René Descartes Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School and the author of numerous books, including Being and Event; Theory of the Subject; and Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil.

Bruno Bosteels is Professor in¿the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

About the author

Alain Badiou

Summary

In Can Politics Be Thought?—published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time—Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism in which he argues for the continuation of Marxist politics.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou
• Assisted by: Bruno Bosteels (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781478001324
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0132-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous