Badiou and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Badiou and Politics write by Bruno Bosteels. This book was released on 2011-08-10. Badiou and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVExamines the political thinking of French philosopher of Alain Badiou, whose theories of ontology and mathematics have set him apart from many of his post-structuralist contemporaries./div
Can Politics Be Thought?
Can Politics Be Thought? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can Politics Be Thought? write by Alain Badiou. This book was released on 2018. Can Politics Be Thought? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Destruction -- Recomposition -- Of an obscure disaster : on the end of the truth of the state.
The Politics of Logic
The Politics of Logic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Logic write by Paul Livingston. This book was released on 2012-03-22. The Politics of Logic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their development and transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical structures forms the backbone of his comprehensive and provocative theory of ontology, politics, and the possibilities of radical change. Through interpretive readings of Badiou's work as well as the texts of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Livingston develops a formally based taxonomy of critical positions on the nature and structure of political communities. These readings, along with readings of Parmenides and Plato, show how the formal results can transfigure two interrelated and ancient problems of the One and the Many: the problem of the relationship of a Form or Idea to the many of its participants, and the problem of the relationship of a social whole to its many constituents.
Metapolitics
Metapolitics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metapolitics write by Alain Badiou. This book was released on 2012-01-16. Metapolitics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
In Praise of Love
In Praise of Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Praise of Love write by Alain Badiou. This book was released on 2012-11-27. In Praise of Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless
