Metapolitics (Radical Thinkers) - Softcover

Badiou, Alain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677818 ISBN 13: 9781844677818

Publisher: Verso, 2012

Synopsis

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 writings on workers’ history and democratic dissensus, the role of the subject in Althusser, as well as the concept of democracy and the link between truth and justice.

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About the Author:

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, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy.

Review:

“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”—Slavoj i ek

“An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.”—New Statesman

“One of the most important philosophers writing today.”—Joan Copjec

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844677818
• ISBN 13: 9781844677818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204