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Being and Event
Alain Badiou
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Description for Being and Event
Paperback. Translator(s): Feltham, Oliver. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 744.
Since the book’s first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou’s Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou’s philosophical project and sees him recast the European philosophical tradition from Plato onwards, via a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, and Lacan. He thus develops the basis for a history of philosophy rivalling those of Heidegger and Deleuze in its depth. Now ... Read more
Since the book’s first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou’s Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou’s philosophical project and sees him recast the European philosophical tradition from Plato onwards, via a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, and Lacan. He thus develops the basis for a history of philosophy rivalling those of Heidegger and Deleuze in its depth. Now ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Bloomsbury Revelations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472511065
SKU
V9781472511065
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About Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Oliver Feltham is Associate Professor of Philosophyat the American University of Paris, France.
Reviews for Being and Event
"Badiou's approach is unique, rigorous, and interesting..." - Jill Stauffer, Theory & Event "[Badiou] develops, in the central passages of the book, his central notions of situations and events, and devotes many, often arresting pages to elucidating the mechanism by which the latter productively disrupt the former. The structure of experience is not merely open to change, pregnant with contingent ... Read more