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This collection of political essays from Alain Badiou analyses, with keen philosophical insight, some of the key events and debates that have come to pass in recent years. Political activism is a constant of Badiou's life and with customary acuity he delivers here precise analyses on the nature...

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Main Author: Badiou, Alain
Other Authors: Winter, Cécile
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2006
Subjects:
Political science > Philosophy.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0710/2007270549.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2007270549-b.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2007270549-d.html
Table of Contents:
  • PT. 1. PHILOSOPHY AND CIRCUMSTANCES: Introduction
  • Philosophy and the question of war today: 1. On September 11 2001: philosophy and the 'War against terrorism'
  • 2. Fragments of a public journal on the American war against Iraq
  • 3. On the war against Serbia: who strikes whom in the world today?
  • The 'democratic' fetish and racism: 4. On parliamentary 'democracy': the French presidential elections of 2002
  • 5. The law on the Islamic headscarf
  • 6. Daily humiliation
  • Openings/Affirmations: 7. The power of the open: A discourse on the necessity of fusing Germany and France
  • 8. Third sketch of a manifesto of affirmationist art
  • Notes to part one
  • PT. 2. USES OF THE WORD 'JEW': Introduction
  • 1. Israel: the country in the world where there are the fewest Jews?
  • 2. 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)
  • 3. A dialogue between a Jew from Darzia and an Arab from Epirus
  • 4. Saint Paul and the Jews (excerpt from Saint Paul: the foundation of universalism, translated by Ray Brassier)
  • 5. Against negationism
  • 6. Local angel
  • 7. Intervew at the Daily Haaretz
  • 8. The master-signifier of the New Aryans (by Cécile Winter)
  • 9. The word 'Jew' and the sycophant
  • Notes to part two
  • PT. 3. HISTORICITY OF POLITICS: LESSONS OF TWO REVOLUTIONS. 1. The Paris commune: a political declaration on politics
  • 2. The cultural revolution: the last revolution?
  • A brief chronology of the cultural revolution (translated by Bruno Bosteels)
  • Notes to part three.

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