The Communist Hypothesis

Alain Badiou

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English

Verso
24 June 2015

Philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Marxism & 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

Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book."

By: Alain Badiou
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9781781688700
ISBN 10: 1781688702
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 24 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Aecole 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 four recent books Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics and Polemics are available from Verso.

Reviews for The Communist Hypothesis

A Little Red Book for our time? * Platypus * An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. -- Lucy Wadham * New Statesman * A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! -- Slavoj Zizek Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy. * Times Higher Education Supplement *