Briefings on Existence - A Short Treatise on Transitory Ontology

Informationen zum Autor Alain Badiou is Director of the Department of Philosophy at École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Several of his works have been translated into English, including Manifesto for Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press and also translated by Norman Madarasz, who is Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidade Gama Filho, Brazil. Klappentext "Twice in its history! philosophy has arisen from the sophists' threat: first with Plato and then again with Kant! who saved it from Humean skepticism. Today! when we again live in an era of globalized sophism (deconstructionist relativism! finite "weak thought")! Alain Badiou's project is no less than to repeat the Platonic-Kantian move! and to reestablish philosophy as the theory of universal Truth. The task is immense--and the miracle is that Badiou effectively delivers what he promises. For this reason alone! Badiou's thought is the single most important event in contemporary philosophy."

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou, Norman/ Madarasz Madarasz
• Assisted by: Norman Madarasz (Translation)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2006
• EAN: 9780791468036
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6803-6
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Series, Intersections: Po
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works