{"title":"Alain Badiou","description":"Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège 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, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy.","products":[{"product_id":"philosophy-for-militants-paperback","title":"Philosophy for Militants - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn urgent and provocative account of the modern 'militant', a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badiou's contention that the politics of such militants should condition the tasks of philosophy, even as philosophy clarifies the truth of our political condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo resolve the conflicts between politics, philosophy and democracy, Badiou argues for a resurgent communism - returning to the original call for universal emancipation and organizing for militant struggle.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377619042527,"sku":"9781781688694","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/17vU_Xa2gO9781781688694.webp?v=1789236210"},{"product_id":"metapolitics-paperback","title":"Metapolitics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBadiou 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377624776927,"sku":"9781844677818","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/98bhmzLSH-9781844677818.webp?v=1789236221"},{"product_id":"the-meaning-of-sarkozy-paperback","title":"The Meaning of Sarkozy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the true significance of what he represents--a reactionary tradition that goes back more than a hundred years. To escape the malaise that has enveloped the Left since Sarkozy's election, Badiou casts aside the slavish worship of electoral democracy and maps out a communist hypothesis that lays the basis for an emancipatory politics of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377629987039,"sku":"9781844676293","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aKbkpKsRfR9781844676293.webp?v=1789236235"},{"product_id":"the-communist-hypothesis-paperback","title":"The Communist Hypothesis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e--Alain Badiou \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlain 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377642963167,"sku":"9781781688700","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/EHAk_vMER79781781688700.webp?v=1789236269"},{"product_id":"ethics-an-essay-on-the-understanding-of-evil-paperback","title":"Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlain 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377718722783,"sku":"9781781680186","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/I3u6ymoeHu9781781680186.webp?v=1789240009"},{"product_id":"wittgensteins-antiphilosophy-paperback","title":"Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the \"linguistic turn\" in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the \"anti-philosophy\" of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his \u003ci\u003eTractatus Logico-Philosophicus\u003c\/i\u003e. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence--showing what cannot be said, after accepting the limits of language and meaning--Badiou argues that this mystical act reduces logic to rhetoric, truth to an effect of language games, and philosophy to a series of esoteric aphorisms. in the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein's anti-philosophy, Badiou sets out and refines his own definitions of the universal truths that condition philosophy. Bruno Bosteels' introduction shows that this encounter with Wittgenstein is central to Badiou's overall project--and that a continuing dialogue with the exemplar of anti-philosophy is crucial for contemporary philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377735663839,"sku":"9781844672240","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lQkuqZJOHf9781844672240.webp?v=1789240053"},{"product_id":"a-political-life-1937-1985-hardcover","title":"A Political Life: 1937 - 1985 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the renowned philosopher and polymath Alain Badiou tells the story of the first five decades of his life, from 1937 to 1985, setting it within the political history of the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Born in Morocco on the eve of catastrophic conflict, Badiou's childhood and youth were marked by the Second World War and the Algerian War, experiences that would shape his political consciousness. Badiou honed his political convictions as an activist and organiser among students and workers and in solidarity with the Algerian independence movement, but his life was upended and transformed by May '68 in ways that were profoundly consequential for his philosophical thought. By weaving his philosophical ideas into the narrative of his life, we see how the concepts for which Badiou is well-known - such as subject, being, event and truth - operate in the domain of experience and history. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Written in an engaging and often playful style, this book illuminates both the unique trajectory of a major philosopher and the turbulent history of the twentieth century, showing how the latter shaped the thinking of a man who has come to embody the very idea of political commitment and radical political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377739301087,"sku":"9781509565665","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WnR7-mvij49781509565665.webp?v=1789240063"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alain-badiou.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}