Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil - Paperback

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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil - Paperback

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil - Paperback

by Alain Badiou
$24.95
$24.95

Book Overview

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.
ISBN9781781680186
Author Alain Badiou
PublisherVerso
GenrePhilosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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.

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