In Praise Of Love

Author(s): Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong

Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs

French philosopher Alain Badiou turns his attention to love. A new century, new threats to love...Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love - without the key ingredient of chance - is in danger of withering on the vine. In "In Praise of Love", Alain Badiou takes on contemporary 'dating agency' conceptions of love that come complete with zero-risk insurance - like US zero-casualty bombs. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for re-invention, in a constant exploration of otherness and difference that leads the individual out of an obsession with identity and self. Liberal, libertine and libertarian reductions of love to instant pleasure and non-commitment bite the dust as Badiou invokes a supporting cast of thinkers from Plato to Lacan via Karl Marx to form a new narrative of romance, relationships and sex - a narrative that does not fear love.

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"'Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda' (Terry Eagleton) 'One of the most important philosophers writing today' (Joan Copjec) 'A philosopher who is far from willing to abandon humanity to the vicissitudes of so-called global capitalism' (Mark Fisher)"

Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou is a leading French philosopher. With Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek, he has reclaimed for the radical left the concepts of being, truth and the subject. A lifelong communist, he is the author of The Meaning of Sarkozy, Being and Event, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil and The Communist Hypothesis.

General Fields

  • : 9781846687792
  • : Profile Books
  • : Serpent's Tail
  • : 0.34
  • : May 2012
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : May 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 128.46