The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

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Alain Badiou Susan Spitzer

The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche

A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

Alain Badiou, Susan Spitzer, Kenneth Reinhard

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Columbia University Press
19 February 2013

Plays & playscripts; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism

Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

"The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a ""politics of subtraction"" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, the work features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to reconcile the nature and practice of politics.

This bilingual edition presents L'Incident d'Antioche in its original French and, on facing pages, an expertly executed English translation. Badiou adds a special preface, and an introduction by the scholar Kenneth Reinhard connects the play to Paul Claudel's The City, Saint Paul and the early history of the Church, and the innovative mathematical thinking of Paul Cohen. The translation includes Susan Spitzer's extensive notes clarifying allusions and quotations and hinting at Badiou's intentions. An interview with Badiou encompasses the play's settings, themes, and events, as well as his ongoing literary and conceptual experimentation on stage and off."

By: Alain Badiou
Introduction by: Kenneth Reinhard
Translated by: Susan Spitzer
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9780231157759
ISBN 10: 0231157754
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 19 February 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato's Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016).

Reviews for The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

Badiou resembles Sartre in the versatility, creativity, and energy that make them major literary authors as well as philosophers. It is a measure of Spitzer's talent as a translator that she manages to preserve the literariness of Badiou's language--its difficulty, strangeness, and beauty--while making it vivid and fluid and consistent with the syntactical and grammatical demands of English. -- Joseph Litvak, Tufts University