Polemics

Name: Polemics
Price: 9.29 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781844677634

ISBN-10: 184467763X

ISBN-13: 9781844677634

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels, Ray Brassier, Steve Corcoran, Cecile Winter

List price: $25.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $9.29

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. At once witty and profound, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 5.75" wide x 7.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

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



Translator's Introduction


Acknowledgements



Philosophy and Circumstances


Introduction


Philosophy and the Question of War Today



On September 11 2001: Philosophy and the 'War against Terrorism'



Fragments of a Public Journal on the American War against Iraq



On the War against Serbia: Who Strikes Whom in the World Today?


The 'Democratic' Fetish and Racism



On Parliamentary 'Democracy': the French Presidential Elections of 2002



The Law on the Islamic Headscarf



Daily Humiliation


Openings/Affirmations



The Power of the Open: A Discourse on the Necessity of Fusing Germany and France



Third Sketch of a Manifesto of Affirmationist Art


Notes to Part One



Uses of the Word 'Jew'


Introduction



Israel: the Country in the World where there are the Fewest Jews?



The Destruction of the European Jews and the Question of Evil (fragments from Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, translated by Peter Hallward)



A Dialogue between a Jew from Darzia and an Arab from Epirus



Saint Paul and the Jews (excerpt from Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism., translated by Ray Brassier)



Against Negationism



Local Angel



Interview in Haaretz



The Master-Signifier of the New Aryans (by Cï¿½cile Winter)



The Word Jew' and the Sycophant


Notes to Part Two



Historicity of Politics: Lessons of Two Revolutions



The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics



The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution?


A Brief Chronology of the Cultural Revolution (translated by Bruno Bosteels)


Notes to Part Three


Index