Badiou and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780822350767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 462 str.

Bruno Bosteels; Stanley Fish; Fredric Jameson

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"Badiou and Politics" offers a much-anticipated interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou. Countering ideas of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the event as a radical break, Bruno Bosteels reveals Badiou s deep and ongoing investment in the dialectic. Bosteels draws on all of Badiou s writings, from the philosopher s student days in the 1960s to the present, as well as on Badiou s exchanges with other thinkers, from his avowed masters Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, to interlocutors including Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj i ek, Daniel Bensaid, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler. Bosteels tracks the philosopher s political activities from the events of May 1968 through his embrace of Maoism and the work he has done since the 1980s, helping to mobilize France s illegal immigrants or "sans-papiers." Ultimately, Bosteels argues for understanding Badiou s thought as a revival of dialectical materialism, and he illuminates the philosopher s understanding of the task of theory: to define a conceptual space for thinking emancipatory politics in the present."