Philosophy and the Event

Name: Philosophy and the Event
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ISBN: 9780745653952

ISBN-10: 0745653952

ISBN-13: 9780745653952

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alain Badiou

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This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou’s thought. Responding to Tarby’s questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In all these domains, events occur that bring to light possibilities that were invisible or even unthinkable; they propose something to us. Everything then depends on how the possibility opened up by the event is grasped, elaborated and embedded in the world – this is what Badiou calls a ‘truth procedure’. The event creates a possibility but there then has to be an effort – a group effort in the case of politics, an individual effort in the case of…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 7/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.40" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Translator's Preface


Acknowledgements


Foreword



Politics



Love



Art



Sciences



Philosophy



A Short Introduction to Alain Badiou's Philosophy by Fabien Tarby