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Abstract
Alain Badiou is rapidly emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time. Badiou opposes the contemporary reduction of philosophy to nothing but a matter of language and premature announcements of the end of philosophy and thus sets himself against both analytic and continental modes of philosophy.
Setting the traditional platonic concerns of philosophy, truth and being, against the modern sophists of postmodernism, Badiou has articulated a powerful systematic philosophy with profound ethical and political consequences.
'The best account of [my work's] political trajectory'
Alain Badiou
'A nuanced and stimulating invitation to the work of Alain Badiou'
Alberto Toscano, Radical Philosophy
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | vii | ||
| Abbreviations | viii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| 1. Maoist Beginnings | 13 | ||
| 2. The Science of Being\r | 39 | ||
| 3. The Event of Non-Being | 59 | ||
| 4. The Politics of Truth | 83 | ||
| 5. The Cult of Deleuze | 111 | ||
| 6. The Ethics of Philosophy | 130 | ||
| Appendix: Some Basic Principles of Set Theory | 149 | ||
| Notes and References | 156 | ||
| Bibliography | 171 | ||
| Index | 179 |