Ethics An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Name: Ethics An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
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ISBN: 9781859844359

ISBN-10: 1859844359

ISBN-13: 9781859844359

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Alain Badiou, Peter Hallward

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Alain Badiou explodes the facile assumptions behind the recent ethical turn in political and academic agendas. He demonstrates how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights cannot underpin a coherent concept of evil.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

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



Translator's Introduction


Notes on the Translation


Preface to the English Edition


Introduction



Does Man Exist?



Does the Other Exist?



Ethics as a Figure of Nihilism



The Ethic of Truths



The Problem of Evil


Conclusion



Politics and Philosophy: An Interview with Alain Badiou


Bibliography


Index