Alain Badiou; live theory.

9780826496935

Alain Badiou; live theory.

Feltham, Oliver.

Continuum Publishing Group

2008

159 pages

$19.95

Paperback

B2430

Although he is considered one of the most important theorists at work today, many admit that his work can be startling, radical and even opaque. Feltham (literature and philosophy, American U. of Paris at the U. of California Paris Center) takes on Badiou's reputation as well as his oeuvre, presenting a concise and understandable introduction to his themes and assessing his impact on contemporary French philosophy and politics. Felthan gives due consideration of Badiou's Metapolitics and Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil as well as his greatest work, Being and Event. In doing so Feltham explains Badiou's call for revolution, and in doing so provides a solid background to the long-awaited sequel Logics of Worlds. Feltham makes a strong case for Badiou's commitment to fundamental change and efforts by his followers to apply his thought to not only politics but art, literature, and the very landscape.

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