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Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin
Alain Badiou
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Paperback. * Alain Badiou is probably the most widely read and influential philosopher in France today. Alain Finkielkraut is also a well-known public intellectual in France * Both have attracted controversy in the past and they hold strongly contrasting political views. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 196.
Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents, gathered here for their first-ever debate, have irreconcilable visions. Yet neither is a stranger to controversy, and in this debate they make explicit the grounds of their personal dispute as well as addressing, in a frank and open exchange, their ideas and theories.
Guided by Aude Lancelin, the two philosophers discuss subjects as diverse as national identity, Israel and Judaism, May 1968, and renewed popularity of the idea of communism. ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745685700
SKU
V9780745685700
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About Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a writer, philosopher, and professor emeritus of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Alain Finkielkraut is a professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris and host of the radio show “Répliques” on France-Culture. Aude Lancelin is a journalist at Le Nouvel Observateur.
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"Somewhere beyond belief in the possibility of consensus and disbelief in the mutability of hostilities, these two unlikely interlocutors - powerful defenders of opposed positions - agreed to sit down and have it out. Their heated, sometimes harsh, debate may not persuade you to surrender your own leanings, but it will force you to rethink the terms in which you ... Read more