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The Adventure of French Philosophy
Alain Badiou
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The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.
Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser's canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of "potato fascism" in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard ... Read more
The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.
Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser's canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of "potato fascism" in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
430
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844677931
SKU
V9781844677931
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99-15
About Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou teaches Philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, ... Read more
Reviews for The Adventure of French Philosophy
French philosophy still has a kick in it, and it can still turn heads. You have been warned.
Jonathan Rée
Prospect
One of the most important philosophers writing today.
Joan Copjec A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!
Slavoj Zizek An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
New Statesman
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Jonathan Rée
Prospect
One of the most important philosophers writing today.
Joan Copjec A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!
Slavoj Zizek An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
New Statesman
... Read more