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Author:Alain Badiou
A New Dawn for Politics
What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by fences and walls...- $12.95
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Ahmed the Philosopher: Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children & Everyone Else
English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's most entertaining and accessible play, translated into...- $29.95
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Badiou by Badiou
An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence...- $16.00
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Badiou by Badiou
An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence...- $45.00
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Being and Event
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...- $26.95
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Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color
Who hasn't had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called The Stroke of Midnight. The furtive discovery of the dark continent of sex in...- $12.95
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Briefings on Existence: A Short Treatise on Transitory Ontology
This book continues Alain Badiou's project to posit an integral link between mathematics and ontology. Originally published as part of a trilogy in 1998, Briefings on Existence engages the ideas of Deleuze, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, and Kant and outlines how the philosophical inquiry into...- $32.95
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Can Politics Be Thought?
In Can Politics Be Thought?-published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time-Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism. Distinguishing politics as an active mode of thinking from the political as a...- $23.95
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Cinema
For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends...- $28.95
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.Author: Alain...- $19.95
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Five Lessons on Wagner
A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner's workFor over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological--some say racist and reactionary--underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain...- $29.95
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German Philosophy: A Dialogue
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 French perspective. Written...- $12.95
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Handbook of Inaesthetics
Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it...- $25.00
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Happiness
'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The...- $18.95
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Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy
Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. How are we to make sense of this dual life?...- $21.00
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Images of the Present Time
Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time-that is,...- $35.00
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Images of the Present Time
Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time--that is,...- $28.00
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In Praise of Love
The renowned French philosopher's "ode to love's power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain" (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen...- $15.99
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In Praise of Mathematics
Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it's not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness? That is precisely...- $19.95
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In Praise of Politics
Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politics today. Yet in this lively dialogue with journalist Aude Lancelin, leading French thinker Alain Badiou argues that it is precisely through...- $12.95
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Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy
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...- $26.95
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Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3
Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou's seminars, given annually on major conceptual and historical topics, constitute an enormously important part of his work. They served as laboratories for his thought and public illuminations of his complex ideas yet...- $24.00
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Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3
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Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II
Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being...- $55.00
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Malebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2
Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In...- $28.00
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Malebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2
Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In...- $35.00
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Manifesto for Philosophy
Contra those proclaiming the end of philosophy, Badiou aims to restore philosophical thought to the complete space of the truths that condition it. Author: Alain BadiouISBN-10: 0791442209ISBN-13: 9780791442203Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/1999Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.96h x 5.98w x 0.49dAbout...- $31.95
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Mathematics of the Transcendental
In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of category theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from set theory, and the 'thinking of being'. In doing so he sets out the basic onto-logical requirements...- $25.95
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Metapolitics
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...- $24.95
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Migrants and Militants
The question of migration has come to dominate the news agenda in many countries, but what does the word 'migrant' really mean today and how should we respond to those who are labelled 'migrants'? In this short book Alain Badiou argues that our way...- $12.95
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Number and Numbers
Author: Alain BadiouISBN-10: 0745638791ISBN-13: 9780745638799Publisher: Polity PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2008Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.92h x 6.04w x 0.74dAbout the AuthorAlain Badiou is Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure.- $26.95
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Number and Numbers
The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain...- $72.75
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Philosophy and the Event
This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou's thought. Responding to Tarby's questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of philosophy: politics, love, art and science. In all these domains, events occur that bring...- $22.95
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Philosophy for Militants
Author: Alain BadiouISBN-10: 1781688699ISBN-13: 9781781688694Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2015Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.30dAbout the AuthorAlain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he...- $19.95
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Philosophy in the Present
At once an invitation to philosophy and an introduction to the thinking of two of the most topical and controversial philosophers writing today, this concise volume will be of great interest to students and general readers alike.Author: Alain Badiou, Slavoj ÂiâekISBN-10: 0745640974ISBN-13: 9780745640976Publisher: Polity...- $12.95
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Plato's Republic: A Dialogue in Sixteen Chapters
Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato's landmark text and revives...- $55.00
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Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy
Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today's leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon--his teachers, opponents and...- $12.95
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Polemics
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...- $29.95
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Rhapsody for the Theatre
For Alain Badiou, theatre--unlike cinema--is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements,...- $24.95
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Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
In this bold and provocative work, French philosopher Alain Badiou proposes a startling reinterpretation of St. Paul. For Badiou, Paul is neither the venerable saint embalmed by Christian tradition, nor the venomous priest execrated by philosophers like Nietzsche: he is instead a profoundly original...- $22.00
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Second Manifesto for Philosophy
Twenty years ago, Alain Badiou's first Manifesto for Philosophy rose up against the all-pervasive proclamation of the "end" of philosophy. In lieu of this problematic of the end, he put forward the watchword: "one more step". The situation has considerably changed since then. Philosophy...- $22.95
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The Adventure of French Philosophy
The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the French Moment in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time...- $24.95
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The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose
"In this collection of essays, Alain Badiou revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole...- $29.95
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The Century
Author: Alain BadiouISBN-10: 0745636322ISBN-13: 9780745636320Publisher: Polity PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2007Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.09w x 0.65dAbout the AuthorAlain Badiou, Professor of Philosophy, l'Ecole normale superieure- $26.95
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The Communist Hypothesis
Author: Alain BadiouISBN-10: 1781688702ISBN-13: 9781781688700Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2015Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.75h x 5.06w x 0.51dAbout the AuthorAlain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he...- $29.95
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The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics
The Concept of Model is the first of Alain Badiou's early books to be translated fully into English. With this publication English readers finally have access to a crucial work by one of the world's greatest living philosophers. Written on the eve of the...- $25.00
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The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III
The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths,...- $75.00
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The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III
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The Meaning of Sarkozy
In this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the true significance of what he represents--a reactionary tradition that goes back more than a hundred years. To escape the malaise that has enveloped the Left...- $16.95
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The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant, 1983-1984
Alain Badiou's 1983-1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant-a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the...- $35.00
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