Metapolitics

Alain Badiou, Jason Barker

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English

Macmillan
29 December 2011

Philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory

Series: Radical Thinkers

"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."

By: Alain Badiou
Translated by: Jason Barker
Imprint: Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 231g
ISBN: 9781844677818
ISBN 10: 1844677818
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 29 December 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis and Five Lessons on Wagner.

Reviews for Metapolitics

One of the most important philosophers writing today. Joan Copjec A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! Slavoj A iA ek An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. New Statesman