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Our Wound is Not So Recent: Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November
Alain Badiou
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Hardback. On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JMG; HBJD; HBLX; JPWL2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 134 x 268 x 15. Weight in Grams: 198.
On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today?
In this short book the influential philosopher Alain Badiou argues that while these violent events are commonly portrayed as acts of Islamic terrorism, in fact they attest to a much deeper malaise that is connected to the triumph of global capitalism and to new forms of imperialism that involve the weakening of states, ... Read more
On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today?
In this short book the influential philosopher Alain Badiou argues that while these violent events are commonly portrayed as acts of Islamic terrorism, in fact they attest to a much deeper malaise that is connected to the triumph of global capitalism and to new forms of imperialism that involve the weakening of states, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509514939
SKU
V9781509514939
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About Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a writer, philosopher and an Emeritus Professor at the École normale supérieure, Paris.
Reviews for Our Wound is Not So Recent: Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November
"Badiou�s short book on the roots of recent terrorist attacks can be compared to a single long cinematographic take, which begins with a close-up of an object and then gradually withdraws, so that we see its historical context. This wider context is the dynamics of global capitalism and it is only from such a perspective that we can locate the ... Read more