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Being and Event by Alain Badiou
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou's p ...Show more
Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color by Alain Badiou
$21.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Who has not had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch black? As a child, Alain Badiou went through it when he, along with friends, made up a game called On the stroke of midnight. The furtive discovery of the dark continent of sex in banned magazines, the beauty of black ink on pap ...Show more
German Philosophy - A Dialogue by Alain Badiou; Jean-Luc Nancy; Jan Völker; Richard Lambert
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy--including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger--from a French perspective. In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy from a ...Show more
I Know There Are So Many of You by Alain Badiou
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Category: Critical Thinking
The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today's world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a greater scale than ever before. ...Show more
In Praise Of Love by Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong
$28.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
French philosopher Alain Badiou turns his attention to love. A new century, new threats to love...Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love - wi ...Show more
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou
$39.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading light in the generation of thinkers who come of intellectual age in 1968, his work deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers from Plato and Lucretius, throug ...Show more
Philosophy for Militants by Alain Badiou
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Pocket Communism
This concise, accessible volume captures the relationship between politics and philosophy as it is conceived in Alain Badiou's work. Harking back to his mentor Louis Althusser, Badiou explains how politics conditions philosophy, while suggesting that philosophy itself may be needed to clarify the truths ...Show more
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Pocket Communism
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities. Alain Badiou' ...Show more
The True Life: A Plea for Corrupting the Young by Alain Badiou
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Category: Critical Thinking
'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world. With the decline of old trad ...Show more
Trump by Alain Badiou
$20.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this ex ...Show more
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