Metapolitics

Name: Metapolitics
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ISBN: 9781844677818

ISBN-10: 1844677818

ISBN-13: 9781844677818

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alain Badiou

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Badiou 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…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 1/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosphie in Paris.