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Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations
Adrian Johnston
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Paperback. Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek together have emerged as two of Europe's most significant living philosophers. This book examines Badiouian and Zizekian depictions of change, particularly as deployed at the intersection of philosophy and politics. Series Editor(s): Steinbock, Anthony J. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek together have emerged as two of Europe's most significant living philosophers. In a shared spirit of resistance to global capitalism, both are committed to bringing philosophical reflection to bear upon present-day political circumstances. These thinkers are especially interested in asking what consequences the supposed twentieth-century demise of communism entails for leftist political theory in the early twenty-first century.
Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations examines Badiouian and Žižekian depictions of change, particularly as deployed at the intersection of philosophy and politics. The book details the origins of Badiou's concept of the event and Žižek's ... Read more
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek together have emerged as two of Europe's most significant living philosophers. In a shared spirit of resistance to global capitalism, both are committed to bringing philosophical reflection to bear upon present-day political circumstances. These thinkers are especially interested in asking what consequences the supposed twentieth-century demise of communism entails for leftist political theory in the early twenty-first century.
Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations examines Badiouian and Žižekian depictions of change, particularly as deployed at the intersection of philosophy and politics. The book details the origins of Badiou's concept of the event and Žižek's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810125704
SKU
V9780810125704
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About Adrian Johnston
Adrian Johnston is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, USA, and an assistant teaching analyst at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta, USA. He is author, most recently, of Žižek Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (2008), also from Northwestern University Press.
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