Metapolitics

Name: Metapolitics
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ISBN: 9781844675678

ISBN-10: 184467567X

ISBN-13: 9781844675678

Edition: 2006

Authors: Alain Badiou, Jason Barker

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In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed volume Ethics, a searing critique of liberalism, Alain Badiou discusses the limits of political philosophy. Metapolitics argues that one of the main tasks of contemporary thought is to abolish the idea that politics is merely an object for philosophical reflection. 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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 159
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

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



Translator's Introduction


Preface to the English Edition


Prologue: Resistant Philosophers



Against 'Political Philosophy'



Politics as Thought: The Work of Sylvain Lazarus



Althusser: Subjectivity without a Subject



Politics Unbound



A Speculative Disquisition on the Concept of Democracy



Truths and Justice



Ranciere and the Community of Equals



Ranciere and Apolitics



What is a Thermidorean?



Politics as Truth Procedure


Index