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The Century by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction. It is not Badiou's wish to plead for an accused that ...Show more
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Pocket Communism
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities. Alain Badiou' ...Show more
The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga- Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths, which he has been working on for 15 years. ...Show more
What is to be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism. But now, in the wake of the great financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, things look a little different. New questions are arising about capitalism and democracy, new social movements are challeng ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy by Badiou Alain
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the linguistic turn in modern philosophy and anatomizes the antiphilosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein s thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the universal truths that govern his work. Bruno Bosteels s ...Show more