"Badiou once again demonstrates the necessity of communism for thought. Nothing less than a new dialectical materialism is capable of breaking free from the present's ideological confinement."--Jodi Dean, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging"Badiou's great attempt to show us how to think, to act, and to write as revolutionaries in order to create a society, planet, a new age where Good prevails"--Inscriptions"elegant and provocative"--Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis
Part I: Structures and Notions, Becomings and Visions1. The Neolithic Age, Capitalism and Communism2. The Notion of 'Crisis'3. Science, Ideology, and the Middle Class4. Lecture at the Institute of Political SciencesPart II: Thinking the Present from the To-Come5. Lessons from the 'Gilets Jaunes' Movement6. Pandemic, Ignorance, and New Sites of Collectivity7. Movements without an Idea and an Idea for Movements8. World, Existence, Foreignness: A New Dawn for Politics
Alain Badiou is a philosopher, mathematician and novelist who lives in Paris.