Badiou and the Philosophers - 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 the Philosophers write by Alain Badiou. This book was released on 2013-05-09. Badiou and the Philosophers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first English-language translation of a unique televised interview project undertaken by Alain Badiou between 1965 and 1968.
Philosophy and the Event
Philosophy and the Event - 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 Philosophy and the Event write by Alain Badiou. This book was released on 2013-06-10. Philosophy and the Event available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou’s thought. Responding to Tarby’s questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In all these domains, events occur that bring to light possibilities that were invisible or even unthinkable; they propose something to us. Everything then depends on how the possibility opened up by the event is grasped, elaborated and embedded in the world – this is what Badiou calls a ‘truth procedure’. The event creates a possibility but there then has to be an effort – a group effort in the case of politics, an individual effort in the case of love or art – for this possibility to become real and inscribed in the world. As he explains his thinking on politics, love, art and science, Badiou takes stock of his major works, reflects on their central themes and arguments and looks forward to the questions he plans to address in his future writings. The book concludes with a short introduction to Badiou’s philosophy by Fabien Tarby. For anyone wishing to understand the work of one of the most widely read and influential philosophers writing today, this small book will be an indispensable guide.
Ahmed the Philosopher
Ahmed the Philosopher - 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 Ahmed the Philosopher write by Alain Badiou. This book was released on 2014-04-29. Ahmed the Philosopher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first time, readers are introduced to Badiou's philosophy through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in France. Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the "treacherous servant" Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The comedy unfolds as a series of lessons, with each "short play" or sketch illuminating a different Badiousian concept. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and performative aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic energy that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the world. Through his example, the audience is moved to a living engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the power to break through the limits of everyday life.
For Badiou
For Badiou - 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 For Badiou write by Frank Ruda. This book was released on 2015-05-30. For Badiou available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For Badiou serves both as an introduction to the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou’s thought and as an in-depth examination of his work. Ruda begins with a thorough and clear outline of the sometimes difficult main tenets of Badiou’s philosophy. He then traces the philosophers throughout Western thought who have influenced Badiou’s project—especially Plato, Descartes, Hegel, and Marx—and on whose work Badiou has developed his provocative philosophy. Ruda draws from Badiou’s oeuvre a series of directives with regard to renewing philosophy for the twenty-first century. For Badiou continues the interrogations of its subject and raises new materialistic and dialectical questions for the next generation of engaged philosophers.
Badiou and the Philosophers
Badiou and the Philosophers - 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 the Philosophers write by . This book was released on 2013-03-14. Badiou and the Philosophers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1965 and 1968, the celebrated French philosopher Alain Badiou hosted a televised series in which he interviewed some of the most influential contemporary philosophers of the period, including Michel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Henry and Michel Serres. This book presents the first English-language translation of those interviews. Although Badiou had yet to publish the books that would go on to mark him out as the leading thinker of his generation (Being and Event and Logics of Worlds), his unique approach and highly original ideas are present in each discussion and the interviews present his philosophical origins in a lively and engaging context. More importantly these highly accessible and entertaining interviews provide a snapshot of French philosophy in the 1960s, setting the scene for the very public and political context of philosophy in the period immediately preceding the events of May '68, where philosophy played a crucial role. The book includes a new essay by Badiou in which he reflects on the project 30 years on.
