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  • The Pornographic Age
    Alain Badiou / A. J. Bartlett / Justin Clemens
    Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it.Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin with dismantling the obscene (or pornographic) qualities of neoliberal capitalism. In The Pornographic Agehe asks us to hold up a ...
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    32,01 €

  • Happiness
    Alain Badiou / A. J. Bartlett / Justin Clemens
    ’All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it’s not worth an hour of trouble’ claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The desire to be happy is one of our most universal goals and yet there doesn’t seem to be any easy answers or formulas for achieving h...
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    25,47 €

  • Can Politics Be Thought?
    Alain Badiou
    In Can Politics Be Thought?-published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time-Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism. Distinguishing politics as an active mode of thinking from the political as a domain of the State, Badiou argues for the continuation of Marxist politics. In so doing, he shows why we nee...
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    31,97 €

  • Badiou and His Interlocutors
    Alain Badiou
    This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou - one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It ...
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    46,98 €

  • Mathematics of the Transcendental
    Alain Badiou
    In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of category theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from set theory, and the ’thinking of being’. In doing so he sets out the basic onto-logical requirements of his greater and transcendental logics as articulated in his magnum o...
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    33,87 €

  • Theoretical Writings
    Alain Badiou
    Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy’s perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou’s own words, ’the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy’. Beginning with the controversial assertion ...
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    46,76 €

  • What is Philosophy? A Lecture by Alain Badiou 2010
    Alain Badiou
    Alain Badiou is a professor in philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, the Collège International de Philosophie, both in Paris, and at the European Graduate School, in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In addition to being a political militant, a contributing member of Cahiers pour l’Analyse, and one of the founders of L’Organisation Politique, he is the author of a number of plays an...
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    26,46 €

  • Infinite Thought
    Alain Badiou
    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, through Heidegger to Lacan and Deleuze.Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations...
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    39,66 €

  • Badiou and the Philosophers
    Alain Badiou / Giuseppe Bianco / Tzuchien Tho
    Between 1965 and 1968, the celebrated French philosopher Alain Badiou hosted a televised series in which he interviewed some of the most influential contemporary philosophers of the period, including Michel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Henry and Michel Serres. This book presents the first English-language translation of those interviews. Although Badiou had yet to publish the...
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    47,31 €

  • The Subject of Change
    Alain Badiou
    Alain Badiou occupies the place of the teacher whose primary responsibility rests on the transmission of tradition. The transmission occurs as a consequence of the teacher, the master, the professor, or, as it happens, the old man. Clearly, Badiou occupies all of these roles. However, what concerns us today is that he is an old man and that the old man is the man who is approac...
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    23,20 €

  • Theory of the Subject
    Alain Badiou / Bruno Bosteels
    Theory of the Subject, first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou’s most important works, laying many of the foundations for his magnum opus, Being and Event. Here Badiou seeks to provide a theory of the subject for Marxism through a study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, offering a major contribution to Marxism, as well as to the larger debate regarding...
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    46,35 €

  • The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic
    Alain Badiou / Tzuchien Tho
    The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic is the last in a trilogy of political-philosophical essays, preceded by Theory of Contradiction and On Ideology, written during the dark days at the end of the decade after May ’68. With the late 1970’s 'triumphant restoration' in Europe, China and the United States, Badiou and his collaborators return to Hegel with a Chinese twist....
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    16,40 €

  • The Concept of Model
    Alain Badiou / Tzuchien Tho / Zachary Luke Fraser
    The Concept of Model is the first of Alain Badiou’s early books to be translated fully into English. With this publication English readers finally have access to a crucial work by one of the world’s greatest living philosophers. Written on the eve of the events of May 1968, The Concept of Model provides a solid mathematical basis for a rationalist materialism. Badiou’s concept ...
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    20,45 €

  • Theoretical Writings
    Alain Badiou
    Alain Badiou is arguable the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou’s work revitalizes philosophy’s perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. This volume presents for the first time in English a comprehensive overview of Badiou’s ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou’s controv...
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    96,55 €

  • Briefings on Existence
    Alain Badiou
    Explores the link between mathematics and ontology.This book continues Alain Badiou’s project to posit an integral link between mathematics and ontology. Originally published as part of a trilogy in 1998, Briefings on Existence engages the ideas of Deleuze, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, and Kant and outlines how the philosophical inquiry into Being and existence converges with the...
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    47,50 €

  • Theoretical Writings
    Alain Badiou
    Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou’s work revitalizes philosophy’s perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.This volume presents for the first time in English a comprehensive overview of Badiou’s ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou’s contro...
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    155,41 €

  • Manifesto for Philosophy
    Alain Badiou
    Introduction Manifesto for Philosophy 1. Possibility 2. Conditions 3. Modernity 4. Heidegger Viewed as Commonplace 5. Nihilism? 6. Sutures 7. The Age of Poets 8. Events 9. Questions 10. Platonic Gesture 11. Generic The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself Definition of Philosophy Chapter Notes Notes on the Translation Bibliography Contributors Index ...
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    46,26 €