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Description for Metapolitics
Paperback. Acclaimed French philosopher on metaphysics and politics. Series: Radical Thinkers. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in terms of the production of truth and the affirmation of equality. He demands that the question of a possible "political truth" be separated from any notion of consensus or public opinion, and that political action be rethought in terms of the complex process that binds discussion to decision. Starting from this analysis, Badiou critically examines the thought of anthropologist and political theorist Sylvain Lazarus, Jacques Ranciere's ... Read more
Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in terms of the production of truth and the affirmation of equality. He demands that the question of a possible "political truth" be separated from any notion of consensus or public opinion, and that political action be rethought in terms of the complex process that binds discussion to decision. Starting from this analysis, Badiou critically examines the thought of anthropologist and political theorist Sylvain Lazarus, Jacques Ranciere's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Radical Thinkers
Condition
New
Weight
229g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844677818
SKU
V9781844677818
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About Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several seminal works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Manifesto for Philosophy. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, and The Communist Hypothesis.
Reviews for Metapolitics
A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!
Slavoj Zizek An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
New Statesman
One of the most important philosophers writing today.
Joan Copjec
Slavoj Zizek An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
New Statesman
One of the most important philosophers writing today.
Joan Copjec