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The Red Years (Les Annees Rouges) features three key texts by renowned and controversial contemporary French philosopher, Alain Badiou: Theory of Contradiction, Of Ideology, and The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic . Hitherto unavailable in English, these three texts elucidate the formative role of Badiou''s Maoist ''phase'' - an essential moment in his political and philosophical trajectory. Furthermore, these texts are vital to any understanding of radical French thought and politics in the 1970s, and in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. The Red Years also features original essays from leading commentators Tzuchien Tho, and a concluding essay by Bruno Bosteels, which argues for the presence of Maoism in Badiou''s mature thought. Badiou has also written a wholly new preface for this edition.
List of contents
Preface, Alain Badiou
Theory of Contradiction
Of Ideology
The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialect
On Badiou, Tzuchien Tho
Conclusion, Bruno Bosteels
About the author
Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including
Being and Event (2005),
Logics of Worlds (2009), and
The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).
Summary
The first translation of three 1970s works by Alain Badiou, featuring a new preface by Badiou, an interview with Tzuchien Tho and a concluding essay by Bruno Bosteels.
