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A New Dawn for Politics by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by fences and walls built to keep some people out. In pla ...Show more
Being And Event by Badiou Alain
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A work on set theory - the cornerstone of the author's whole philosophy. This book includes a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, and Lacan. It develops the basis for a history of philosophy rivalling those of Heidegger and Deleuze in its depth.
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
$46.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou's p ...Show more
Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Who has not had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch black? As a child, Alain Badiou went through it when he, along with friends, made up a game called On the stroke of midnight. The furtive discovery of the dark continent of sex in banned magazines, the beauty of black ink on pap ...Show more
Cinema by Alain Badiou
$39.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Reading Level: very good
For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other ...Show more
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers | Reading Level: General Adult
Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.
German Philosophy - A Dialogue by Alain Badiou; Jean-Luc Nancy; Jan Völker; Richard Lambert
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy--including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger--from a French perspective. In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy from a ...Show more
Handbook of Inaesthetics by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it underwent the saturation of these t ...Show more
Happiness by Alain Badiou; A. J. Bartlett (Translator); Justin Clemens (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The concept of happiness is a rather tainted and off-putting one for philosophers. It has, in contemporary society, been reduced to the simple answers of the self-help industry, consumerist trends and the polluted rhetoric of the politician. In this major intervention into both contemporary philosophy a ...Show more
In Praise Of Love by Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
French philosopher Alain Badiou turns his attention to love. A new century, new threats to love...Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love - wi ...Show more
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading light in the generation of thinkers who come of intellectual age in 1968, his work deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers from Plato and Lucretius, throug ...Show more